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The Not-So-Bookish Savor Twit Lit
Consumers short on time and even shorter on attention spans are turning to 140-character summaries of Great Books on Twitter, reports the Telegraph. Classics have been "distilled" into prose Twitterers...
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Coetzee Leads Heavy-Hitting Booker Prize Shortlist
JM Coetzee may become the first author to win the Man Booker Prize three times after his fictionalized memoir Summertime made the prestigious literary award's shortlist today. The South African...
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Letters Reveal Byron's Feud With 'Turdsworth'
A collection of letters written by Lord Byron to a clergyman, some of them unpublished, sheds new light on the Romantic poet—who discloses his sexual escapades with servants and angry opinions of...
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Book, Movie Spur Shakespeare Debate
An upcoming film by action picture director Roland Emmerich claims the Earl of Oxford secretly wrote Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, meanwhile, has written a book defending the...
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Literary Critic Frank Kermode Dead at 90
Britain's most acclaimed literary critic has died aged 90. Sir Frank Kermode—described as "the finest English critic of his generation" by author David Lodge—analyzed everything from Shakespeare to...
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Do Yourself a Favor: Read Dickens
Charles Dickens wrote in the 19th century, but at nearly 200 years old, he’s an expert on the 21st century as well. "For the mid-Victorians, government intervention was unthinkable, the market was...
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The 13 Most Worthless Majors
Hey, college students: If your life plans include getting an actual job, you may want to avoid the stars of the Daily Beast 's "most useless" majors list. Majors are ranked in terms of employment,...
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Maybe It's Time to Get Over Shakespeare
Is Shakespeare still relevant today? Before you answer, consider how many of his plays would be ruined by the addition of cellphones, writes Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post . "Soon, if we do a...
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Scholar Finds 50 Lost Rudyard Kipling Poems
A literary scholar has unearthed more than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling—and soon, the world will get to see them. They're set for release in March in the first complete collection of...
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'Bad Handwriting' May Settle Shakespeare Mystery
It's been a nearly 200-year-long debate: Did William Shakespeare add 325 lines to Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy nearly a decade after Kyd's death? None other than Samuel Taylor Coleridge raised the...
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Kiwi, 28, Is Youngest to Win Man Booker
At an age when many authors are still just getting warmed up, New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has taken home one of the literary world's big prizes. The 28-year-old won the Man Booker Prize for The...
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Tolkien's 'New' Labor of Love: Beowulf
In 1926, an Oxford University professor named JRR Tolkien finished a translation of Beowulf —in his words, the "greatest of the surviving works of ancient English poetic art." Tolkien called the...
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Book, Movie Spur Shakespeare Debate
An upcoming film by action picture director Roland Emmerich claims the Earl of Oxford secretly wrote Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, meanwhile, has written a book defending the...
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Literary Critic Frank Kermode Dead at 90
Britain's most acclaimed literary critic has died aged 90. Sir Frank Kermode—described as "the finest English critic of his generation" by author David Lodge—analyzed everything from Shakespeare to...
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Do Yourself a Favor: Read Dickens
Charles Dickens wrote in the 19th century, but at nearly 200 years old, he’s an expert on the 21st century as well. "For the mid-Victorians, government intervention was unthinkable, the market was...
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The 13 Most Worthless Majors
Hey, college students: If your life plans include getting an actual job, you may want to avoid the stars of the Daily Beast 's "most useless" majors list. Majors are ranked in terms of employment,...
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Maybe It's Time to Get Over Shakespeare
Is Shakespeare still relevant today? Before you answer, consider how many of his plays would be ruined by the addition of cellphones, writes Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post . "Soon, if we do a...
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Scholar Finds 50 Lost Rudyard Kipling Poems
A literary scholar has unearthed more than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling—and soon, the world will get to see them. They're set for release in March in the first complete collection of...
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'Bad Handwriting' May Settle Shakespeare Mystery
It's been a nearly 200-year-long debate: Did William Shakespeare add 325 lines to Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy nearly a decade after Kyd's death? None other than Samuel Taylor Coleridge raised the...
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Kiwi, 28, Is Youngest to Win Man Booker
At an age when many authors are still just getting warmed up, New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has taken home one of the literary world's big prizes. The 28-year-old won the Man Booker Prize for The...
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