In the introductory essay of White Magic, Elissa Washuta—a Native American author and member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe—examines the colonization of spirituality, as well as her own reticence to describe herself as a witch: “I just want a version of the occult that isn’t built on plunder, but I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-05-07 11:01:00 UTC ]
Lit Lists As spring emerges and lockdown restrictions continue, here is a list of new and upcoming translated works from around the world to fill your sunny days at home. Isabel Allende The Soul of a Woman Trans. Isabel Allende Ballantine Books,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-03 19:19:35 UTC ]
‘The Lost Decade’ is one of the shortest works by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), the American author best-known for The Great Gatsby. Published in Esquire magazine in December 1939, just one year before Fitzgerald died, ‘The Lost Decade’ is one of his most powerful short stories to deal with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-04-17 14:00:20 UTC ]
The American author John Naisbitt, whose 1982 bestselling book Megatrends was published in dozens of countries, has died at 92 Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2021-04-10 13:18:30 UTC ]
“DER LETZTE TANZ” (“The Last Dance”) — a story by Hungarian American author Susan Taubes written in German and published posthumously — tells the story of Mary Ann, a young girl who has an on-and-off love affair with a man she calls Death. He visits her in dreams, for the first time at the age... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-26 16:00:55 UTC ]
Head of Zeus' Aries imprint has signed a two-book deal with American author Alex Finlay, including a book following a family made infamous after the airing of a true crime documentary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-12 14:50:51 UTC ]
Angry Robot has acquired its first novella collection from Hugo Award-winning American author Tim Pratt after seeing the author's Kickstarter campaign for the project. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-05 22:12:51 UTC ]
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light.” So begins Luster, the extraordinary début novel from American author Raven Leilani, which has caused a sensation in the US and deserves to do the same here. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-01 23:03:04 UTC ]
‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) is one of the most famous stories by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Inspired in part by the Salem witch craze of 1692, the story is a powerful exploration of the dark side of human nature. How Hawthorne loads his story with such power is worthy […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-06-24 14:00:49 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group has acquired Dark Horses, a debut novel from American author Susan Mihalic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 18:22:14 UTC ]
IN A CAREER of almost four decades, American author Stephen Wright has produced exactly five novels. He doesn’t do short stories, he says; when he sits down to write, “I just jump in the pool and start swimming to the deep water.” And his novels are most definitely deep, his key themes being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-04-14 12:30:54 UTC ]
A reading pathway of the works of American author Charles Portis, most famous for True Grit, who died on February 17 at the age of 86. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-19 11:36:40 UTC ]
Each of the American author’s 56 novels was a bestseller and her fiction was extolled by writers from Scott Turow to David Foster WallaceMary Higgins Clark, the “Queen of Suspense” who topped charts with each of her 56 novels, has died at the age of 92.Simon & Schuster president Carolyn... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-03 11:54:59 UTC ]
The US experience of watching sport online should ring alarm bells for those who prize the Premier League’s ability to bring people togetherIn the late 1960s, the American author and tech seer Richard Brautigan wrote lyrically of “a cybernetic meadow / where mammals and computers / live together... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-12-02 18:49:42 UTC ]
Lit Lists Olivia McCourry Asja BakićMarsTranslated by Jennifer Zoble Feminist Press, 2019 With imaginative and striking prose, Bosnian author Asja Bakić’s debut story collection, Mars, tells a tale of a series of different universes. Each realist tale... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-10-16 13:12:17 UTC ]
News and Events WLT Margarita Engle will deliver the keynote address for the Neustadt Lit Fest at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. The event is free and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-10-01 19:25:31 UTC ]
News and Events The prize-winning poster design by OU student Marley Smith NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, September 13, 2019) – University of Oklahoma students Marley Smith, Abby Merz, and Sadie Gorham have been awarded first, second, and third place,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-09-13 16:04:43 UTC ]
In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-08-07 06:00:28 UTC ]
The quintessentially American author wrote pieces for a Paris newspaper in the 1950s. Now, one of those — about a nervous chef and a magnificent cat — is being published in English for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-31 09:00:06 UTC ]
News and Events WLT From left to right: Top: Emmanuel Carrère, Jorie Graham, Jessica Hagedorn. Middle: Eduardo Halfón, Ismail Kadare, Sahar Khalifeh. Bottom: Abdellatif Laâbi, Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen. World Literature Today, the University of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-07-19 14:45:14 UTC ]