Literature News

The multimedia company Jaded Ibis Productions and its imprint Jaded Ibis Press announced today that a new project-based initiative will begin research and development on the convergence of literary art with immersive technologies.

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It is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero, who loathes 19th century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own ... (more)

Non-fiction books, in particular collections of essays, by writers known mostly for their novels, are a curious subcategory of literature.

In One Person, by John Irving - John Irving is more storyteller than topical writer.

The Imperial Brass, featuring guest conductor Torgny Hanson, will perform a memorial concert for the Margaret Kritsch Anderson Children's Education Fund on June 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church and School.

Last week in Scotland, 60 scholars gathered over two days for the U.K.'s first scholarly conference on the Harry Potter series.

Both of these statements are being borne out in all the buzz surrounding "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic novel by E.L. James.

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It is both easier and harder now to remember the Second World War. Information and images abound, but fading is an immediate reason to bother looking.

Michigan Students Win Accolades for Quality Writing With "Letters About Literature" Contest May 25, 2012 LANSING - The Michigan Center for the Book announced Michigan's award winners and finalists for the national Letters about Literature contest today.

PITTSFIELD, Mass - Pittsfield High School had a "whale" of a time Friday when students became a 100-foot white whale.

A top ten list of Scotland's favourite tomes reveals most of us haven't picked up a decent one since school, while current thinking in education is failing to produce new readers, argues Tiffany Jenkins WhilE clearing out the home of an old family friend recently, after his death, I came across piles of notebooks, pens, encyclopaedias and classic ... (more)

A few months ago I had a post up about Game of Thrones , where I argued that to a great extent the book and the world that George R. R. Martin createdA was racist because that's true to how pre-modern worlds generally are constructed structurally.

He was 88. Mr. Fussell had been a formidable scholar of 18th-century British literature, having written several books on the subject before he struck a popular chord in 1975 with " The Great War and Modern Memory ," which won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

"How can you be serious?" Not by wearing this T-shirt! The classic Mark Pawson T-shirt , updated for 2012.

"Portrait Study of President William Jefferson Clinton, 1995-97," oil on canvas, is one of 33 portraits by portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler showcased in "Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits," the newest exhibit at the Fairfield Universityis Bellarmine Museum of Art, on view from Thursday,June 14, through Friday, Sept.

By MELISSA JORDAN BART Senior Web Producer If you are walking through a BART station in coming weeks, lift your eyes from your mobile phone and take a look at those posters on the wall.

Book clubs can be a wonderful way for like-minded people to get together and share their love of literature.

When, as a child, Braintree High School teacher Robert Marx visited a bar in England featured in a Charles Dickens novel, his mind was "literally blown." This passion for literature and its real-life places and inspirational settings led Marx to suggest a new travel abroad program for BHS juniors and seniors - a 10-day trip to England approved ... (more)