EarthDay.org Way back on April 22, 1970, the first-ever Earth Day was celebrated – something we’re honoring with the Top 20 Earth Day Songs. Founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day is acknowledged around the world, especially in schools where students are taught about environmental conservation and what everyone can…
The thing about postmodernism is it s impossible to pin down exactly what might make a book postmodern. In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found…
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Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up in the Mississippi River frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri. Ernest Hemingway s famous statement that all of…
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What an X! is an exclamation meaning that X is extraordinary for its kind in some way. X might be extraordinary because of something good or because of something bad. You have…
Brooklyn’s American Authors – Zac Barnett (vocals), James Adam Shelley (guitar/banjo), Dave Rublin (bass), and Matt Sanchez (drums) will initiate a spring awakening of their own on May 13th with the release of WHAT WE LIVE FOR, their new album on Dirty Canvas/ Island Records, featuring the brand new single “Pride, ” which was…
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By chris king 4ever i have no comment not amazing by harshtruth11 i don t really like it but it s not the worst ever. Tiesto has something up his sleeve by Miami italiano To the reviewer who says it is a bad song, but not the worst ever: You are just going to have to listen to this song at one of Tiesto s concerts then. When…
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Horror books just can t seem to get respect. In 2015, the literary-genre barrier has never been more porous. Big name literary writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie are writing genre books, while the National Book Foundation gives lifetime achievement awards to Elmore Leonard and Ursula K. Le Guin. And, yet, the genre…
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A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Wharton, Age of Innocence; Cather, My Antonia; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison…
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Saul Bellow Way is a one-block stretch of West Augusta Boulevard in Humboldt Park, running from Rockwell to Washtenaw, and named, of course, for the Chicago writer, who would have been 100 on June 10. He died in 2005 and received this honorary street seven years later, after his adopted neighborhood, Hyde Park, rejected a proposal…
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On Monday, Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch. It was no surprise, really, since the much-anticipated novel made the New York Times best-seller list during its first week on the shelves. The book was so popular that people flocked to the Frick Collection in record numbers to see the titular painting…
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Another book list? Yes and no. When we completed our 100 best novels in the English language last August, you did not have to be one of its fiercest critics – there were a few of those – to recognise it was still a job half done. Plainly, the English literary tradition is rich in great works of poetry and prose that are not…
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