Of Algae, Grass, and Such

For vacationers heading to the beach this summer, algae—the toxic red and blue-green types, in particular—is the dreaded stuff threatening to upend the best of plans. But for those in the biofuel and biomaterials industries, algae and algae-extracted compounds are literally the new pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-21 04:00:00 UTC ]

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Of Algae, Grass, and Such

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In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens

Doty does what traditional academic criticism often fails to do: He makes poetry part of how we live and how we think about living. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-28 12:51:06 UTC ]
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German Author Günter Grass Dies

Both an influential writer and contentious political activist in post-war Germany, Günter Grass died on April 13, 2015. The post German Author Günter Grass Dies appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deaths of Grass and Galeano

Tributes have been paid to “one of the giants of world literature” Gunter Grass, who died today (13th April) aged 87. The Nobel Prize-winning German novelist was the author of The Tin Drum, first published in 1959. Geoffrey Mulligan, Grass’ long-time editor at Harvill Secker, said: “Whereas... Continue reading at The Bookseller