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DOE Has Issued Request for Information Regarding Rotating Disk...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office has issued a request for information seeking feedback from interested stakeholders regarding the use of rotating disk electrode experiments and best practices for experimental conditions for characterization of the activity and durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cell oxygen ... (more)
6 hrs ago | Edutopia
Hitting the Books: Summer Reading Recommends
I know a vacation is coming when stacks of books next to my bed start growing. I've started to notice that building those stacks makes the final weeks of the year easier -- the visual reminder of the upcoming break.
6 hrs ago | York Press
Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend on York for Festival of Ideas
THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.
8 hrs ago | New Hampshire Public Radio -
Clamoring For Tolstoy...In Juvie?
"Books Behind Bars" is program which pairs undergraduates from the University of Virginia with inmates at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to read classic Russian literature.
10 hrs ago | The American Scholar
One of the most important moments in my teaching career came about 25 years ago when I contemplated leaving it.
15 hrs ago | The Spectator
Dangerous romance - Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
'The bus company's yellow tin sign on its concrete post seemed for a long while a forlorn flag announcing nothing,' notes Stella, the narrator of Tessa Hadley's new novel Clever Girl .
SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Author/Professor Doctor Charles E. Gannon
Doctor Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English at St. Bonaventure University.
SAT's right answers are all wrong
HAVING SHARPENED THEIR #2 PENCILS, my teenage daughters are about to take this spring's battery of standardized tests, leaving me to wonder what these tests mean - about their education, about the culture of college my husband and I are preparing them for, about American values.
Gatsby In Hell: Flames of Incompetence Consume Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann's bastardization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is a demeaning travesty.
Inject a little Great Gatsby fever into your home
Did you go and see Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby at the weekend? If, like us, you were totally inspired by the costumes and dA©cor in the film but don't feel brave enough to paint the town red in full-on flapper girl attire then you're in luck, as we've discovered a new way to embrace the 20s theme of the moviea Instead of dressing yourself, ... (more)
Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative...
This year's conference will focus on Southern culture and Southern literature. Frye Gaillard, writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, will serve as the event's keynote speaker Gaillard has written extensively on Southern race relations, politics and culture as the author or editor of more than 20 books, including "Cradle of Freedom: ... (more)
Annotated 'Harry Potter' 1st edition on auction
Jodi Arias returns to court for the continuation of her trial after being convicted of murder in her lover's killing as jurors consider a life sentence or execution.
James Runcie: 'I want a cross between the Open University and a party'
Arifa Akbar is deputy literary editor and arts writer at The Independent. She has been at the paper since 2001, and has previously worked as a news reporter and arts correspondent.
Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Albert Camus is arguably one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His relatively short life is well chronicled and the fodder of multiple conversations in university literature classes.
James Franco: "I really felt I was in conversation with Faulkner"
WHEN YOU STUDY Southern literature, it sometimes feels like all roads lead to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, even if you had no intentions of going there.
PW Online and On Air: Week of May 20, 2013
ShelfTalker Guest blogger Alison Morris chronicles her visit to Greece with other children's book lovers for a Children's Literature New England weeklong institute.
Is working memory training effective?
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Decade Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
That was certainly the case for John Williams' novel Stoner . When it was originally published in 1965, it received admiring reviews but sold just 2,000 copies and was almost immediately forgotten.
Failita, or, Lolita and the problem of the unreliable narrator
Brand, Gerhard. "Lolita." Magill's Survey Of American Literature, Revised Edition : 1-2. Literary Reference Center.
A meeting over tea in Tianjin turned classic comic-book capers into a serious business, Yang Yang discovers.