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The tag literature is used often by bloggers when writing posts about books. These are often blogs written by librarians and other educators. A very popular blog about children's literature is Fuse #8 by Librarian Betsy Bird of the New York Public Library. Bookslut is a fun literature blog, and you can read breaking news about literature and the book industry at Galleycat.

Bloggers also use the tag literature in blogs that review fiction and nonfiction. A great blog about nonfiction literature is Nonfiction Matters by Marc Aronson at School Library Journal. Cynsations is a blog by Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of fiction for young readers and faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. You can browse and buy literature of all type from sites like Amazon or you can find them at your nearest local bookstore using IndieBound.org.

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  • Stanislaw Lems Summa Technologiae in English for the first time in 50 Years


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    I know there are some people from english speaking countries reading this thing here and this is a recommendation that really comes from my heart. Stanislaw Lems Summa Technologiae is available in English for the first time since (nearly) 50 Years! I read this monster more than twenty years ago, then again and then ...
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  • Books of The Times: ‘And the Mountains Echoed,’ by Khaled Hosseini


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    “And the Mountains Echoed,” a multigenerational novel by Khaled Hosseini, explores how characters define themselves through the choices they make.        
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  • Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France


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    “What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” a book by the historian Mary Louise Roberts, documents rape and other misconduct among the greatest generation.        
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  • Allen Ginsberg’s “Celestial Homework”: A Reading List for His...


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    Allen Ginsberg’s “Celestial Homework”: A Reading List for His Class “Literary History of the Beats” “Argh, you’re all amateurs in a professional universe!” roared Allen Ginsberg to a young class of aspiring poets in 1977 at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Their offense? Most of the ...
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  • Audio: David Southward on Lionel Trilling, Literary Criticism, Culture and Politics


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    Image by © Bettmann/CORBISLionel Trilling (1905 – 1975) is one of the best known U.S. critics of the twentieth century. A Professor of Literature and Criticism at Columbia University from 1931 - 1975, his teachings focused primarily on the relationships between literature, culture and politics. His first and ...
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  • Books: In Essays, Nurses Highlight Job’s Tedious Duties and Profound Implications


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    In a new anthology of essays, 21 nurses describe the often quiet work of keeping patients alive.        
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  • Word of the Every Other Day


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    darg \dahrg\ noun : 1. Scot. and North England. a day’s work. 2. Australian. a fixed or definite amount of work; a work quota. …as I thought myself entitled to a young man, and did not relish by Text-Enhance" href="#">the apparition of him coming in at the gloaming, when the day’s ...
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  • “Dave, where did it all go wrong?”


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    Malcolm would welcome the source of the famous George Best anecdote, with that punch-line. Some claim it was from George himself . But where did David Cameron’s woes begin? Nick Robinson hasn’t — as far as Malcolm can see — offered his definitive analysis yet [UPDATE: see here ] . That cannot be ...
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  • The Last Word 15 - There Are Other Options [Podcast]


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    In this episode, Karly, Lyz, and special guest Wes, discuss the varied landscape of comics. Theres more to it than just DC and Marvel!          
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  • Book Report: Airline Book Picks, Hotel Libraries, Ebook Sales & More!


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    Readin on a Jet Plane   Some recommended reads for those long flights. Chick Lit is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit   The grown genre known as "Farm Lit" from the Atlantic . Reports of the Bookstores Death Are Greatly Exaggerated   Contrary to popular, small, independent bookstores are not going the way of the ...
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  • Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award


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    Brooklyn Heights resident Ron Chernow , who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Washington: A Life , as well as a place in the Brooklyn Heights Blog’s Top 10 that year, has received the BIO award from the non-profit Biographers International Organization. During a gathering May 18 at the Roosevelt ...
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  • Jacques Derrida in Conversation with Raymond Williams (1986 Documentary)


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    Tagged: Deconstruction , Documentary , Film , Jacques Derrida , philosophy , Raymond Williams
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  • Coins for the Ferryman: Horror as the Key to Our Dark Inner Depths


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    The analysis of Horror is, like almost everything else related to the genre, paradoxical. Because the genre is so rife with archetypal imagery and taboo subjects, it seems that any attempt to rationalize or understand it in purely intellectual terms is ineffectual, or at the very least inadequate. Whereas most other ...
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  • A May Update: Gatsbys Ending Quote, My New Kindle, Reading Plans


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    The Kindle X-Ray feature, here showing character appearances in Great Expectations My second year of university is officially over. Exams are done, keys returned, and Im back at home ready to commence a summer of reading, blogging, and general lounging about. Theres only one thing missing: sun. Reading can quite ...
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  • Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?


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    This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbisons opera version of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby . Read the reactions and join the conversation.
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  • Reimagining Folk and Fairy Tales (with Kink, Joy, Nudity)


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    Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle industry?—in publishing these days. From literary fiction ( The Tiger’s Wife ) to YA (Robin McKinley’s books, Runemarks ) to graphic novels (the Fable series, The Sigh ) to humor ( Gods Behaving Badly ), authors ...
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  • “They shut me up in Prose–” — Emily Dickinson


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    Tagged: Emily Dickinson , Poetry
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  • UK: The simple state of play on the same-sex marriage bill and civil partnerships amendments


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    We’re having a hectic day here at PinkNews with multiple options ahead for the Marriage (same-sex couples) Bill. Here’s where we are:- Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage are backing an amendment originally tabled by Tim Loughton among others to introduce opposite sex civil partnerships. They are ...
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  • Achebe and I are not fathers of African literature — Soyinka


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    Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka In a wide-ranging interview with SaharaReporters, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka paid tribute to Chinua Achebe, who died on March 21, 2013 at 82. Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, also spoke on his personal relationship with Achebe and other Nigerian writers; his ...
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  • Fumiko Enchi: Masks – Onnamen inaudita (1958)


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    Mieko Togano, a highly cultivated, seemingly serene, but frustrated and bitter woman in her fifties, manipulates for her own bizarre purposes the relationship between her widowed daughter-in-law and that woman’s two suitors. I just finished Fumiko Enchi’s  Masks . Enchi was one of the most important Japanese ...
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