Tag Archive | literature
The Only Copy of “Beowulf,” Might Have Disappeared into the Mists of History
July 4, 2018 by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday BEOWULF “Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norm an Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its eponymous hero, and his successive battles with a monster named […]
Mega Book Deal for “Les Mis”
Les Misérables was born of one of the riskiest—and shrewdest—deals in publishing history. In Hugo, Inc., The Paris Review March 23, 2017, Nina Martyris writes, “In a new book, The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’, the professor and translator David Bellos condenses tranches of research into a gripping tale about […]
The Paris Review Video: Karl Ove Knausgaard Discusses His First Book, … and What It Did To Him
March 1, 2017 by Jack Dziamba. New Posr Goes Up Every Wednesday The Paris Review has launched a video series, “My First Time,” where artists discuss their “First Work,”and the effect it has had on them as artists. In the video above Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about writing his first book, Ute av verden (Out […]
James Joyce Live! James Joyce Reads ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ from Finnegans Wake
October 19, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday, by Jack Dziamba. James Joyce Reads ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ from Finnegans Wake Many of us have gone to an author’s “reading,” only to feel that the author “just read it,” many times in a monotone, without inflection or character. Not so with this reading by James […]
Download 336 Issues of the Avant-Garde Magazine The Storm (1910-1932), Featuring the Work of Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy & More
June 8, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday, by Jack Dziamba Whither the Book? While e-book publishing remains in a static state and the sale and use of e-readers has declined, the “Old New Media” of the internet has makes available, for free, an immense trove of both Literature and Art which we have […]
WHITHER MACBETH and MUCH of the REST?
April 20, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday by Jack Dziamba Shakespeare’s First Folio: “The greatest work in English literature.” WHEREFORE ART THOU, MACBETH? ArtDaily -The “First Folio” was published in 1623 — just seven years after Shakespeare’s death — preserving “Macbeth” and 17 other works that were never published in the Bard’s lifetime […]
Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify
New Post goes up Every Wednesday Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More* * Or, “Where mainstream e-book publishers fear to tread.” Re-blogged from OpenCulture, Feb. 4, 2015. OpenCulture remains one of the best blogs on the internet. “Where music goes, technologically speaking, audio books soon […]
AMAZON / AUTHORS, YOU, Part 2 – 2015
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday January 7, 2015 WILL THIS BE THE YEAR OF THE (NEW) BOOK? In our post of November 12, 2014, AMAZON: BOOK, PUBLISHER, SELLER, YOU, we reported on the state of affairs between Amazon and book publishers, quoting an article appearing in the December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, “The War of the […]
THE HARVARD CLASSICS ONLINE – FREE FOR YOU AND ME
New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday THE HARVARD CLASSICS – FREE ONLINE My Harvard Classics is an interactive Harvard Classics Reading Guide on the Web. With a click of the mouse you are taken directly to the exact volume and chapter for each day’s reading. Each volume of The Harvard Classics may be downloaded for free. It is […]
AMAZON: BOOK, PUBLISHER, SELLER, YOU. (Update below 11/13/14)*
Vanity Fair:” The war is really about the future of publishing—and maybe of culture.” Photo Illustration by Stephen Doyle New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET WHITHER THE BOOK? Amazon v. Hachette. The December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair contains an article, “The War of the Words”, by By Keith Gessen.The intro gives […]
Whither the Book 