To commemorate Black History Month, we would like to honor two groundbreaking American authors who celebrate their birthdays this month: Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. Morrison has won nearly every book prize in existence, including a Nobel Prize in Literature and…
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Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate , and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The…
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Davies, whose family background was Welsh, had strong links with England, having studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and then worked at The Old Vic as a writer, teacher of drama…
Our advocacy work supports authors’ rights and their ability to earn a living in the changing publishing landscape. Here’s where we stand on copyright, free speech, piracy, and other issues central to professional authors today. Effective copyright protection is the linchpin of professional authorship: it enables authors to…
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Hopscotch Julio Cortázar (1963) Pablo Neruda said that those who do not read this great Argentinean author are suffering from “a serious invisible disease”. This ludic, meandering and multiple-ended “counter-novel” is about lovers who refuse to make arrangements. Gabriel García Márquez (1967) Dreamily exploring Colombian myths…
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Literature is one way of making sense of the world. This course looks at some of the ways modern American writers have made sense, or tried to make sense, of the rapidly changing twentieth century. Although there s a world of difference between, say, the disturbing introspection of Sylvia Plath s heroine and Vladimir Nabokov…
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About the Emory Women Writers Resource Project The current Emory Women Writers Resource Project site represents the joining of the original EWWRP site and the Womens Genre Fiction site. The Emory Women Writers Resource Project began in 1994 as pedagogical tool designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity…
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Why They’re Here: Punk-pop rarely gets as crafty or ambitious as this Wisconsin trio, who spike their churning crunch with unexpected chord changes and jarring melodic segues; of 2015’s sprawling the New York Times accurately said, “Every song is a puzzle.” Why They’re Not Higher: Even with one of the year’s best rock albums…
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Boy, you are a nerd for clicking the link to come here. I know, you’re saying to yourself, “How in the world can this guy have any time to read books?” And you’d have a point, but I try. One of those goals is to read 3 Modern Library Top 100 books per year 4 Modern Library Top 100 books per year, which puts me as finishing just…
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The bottom line is this: Good writing comes from good reading. But someone can read a statement like that and get the wrong idea. Not all books are created equal If you can help it, don’t just read anything. You should spend your time reading the best books you can find. There is, after all, a lot of junk out there. That said…
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On a lovely day in May, 1868, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, sits down in the Louvre with an aesthetic headache, having seen too many paintings. A young Parisian copyist, Noémie Nioche, catches his eye, and he agrees to buy the painting she is working on for the extravagant price of 2, francs. Shortly thereafter…
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