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Great resource for Literature and English majors, and people in writing intensive classes—plus ideal for literature lovers! Focuses on term paper writing, especially for literature.

Terrific integrated note-taking tool.

Second-hand poetry has been linked to the cancer of unanswerable questions.

As you may have heard, all the writers are in Brooklyn these days. It's the place to be. You're simply not a writer if you don't live here. Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Writer Jonathan Lethem's website kicks so much ass!! Check his links. Check The Promiscuous Materials project. WORD.

a cloud of moving chaos. They were loudmouthed too, the boys. Insults catapulted from their mouths like spat phlegm. All in the basest Ga, the language they dreamed in but were forbidden to speak at school. "Your head like calabash."

James Ellroy expounds on Dashiell Hammett's day job. Dashiell Hammett was allegedly offered five Gs to perform a contract hit. It is most likely a mythic premise. He was a Pinkerton operative at the time. A stooge for Anaconda Copper made the offer.

Among his many unguilty pleasures—Marlboro Lights, Irish whiskey, bacon and eggs, blue jokes, smoke-filled dives where the music wandered on till four in the morning, voracious sex with good-looking men and women—George Melly especially liked to fish.

To begin I posit that the apprenticeship period of a writer, before a publishable novel is completed, lasts approximately eight years and involves three components: 1) lots of writing, much of it crap, an unfinished or rejected opus or three, a novel that

The £60,000 Man Booker International prize goes today to the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and not a little too soon. Things Fall Apart beats Heart of Darkness... I called it a year ago... Now to finish the series (only 32 more to go). Next step: Profit?