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25+ Best Book Podcasts — Best Podcasts for Book Lovers | Town & Country
By Emily Burack, Feb 23, 2022 If you love to read, podcasts may not be your first choice of medium; however, there are a number of incredible book podcasts out there. So just for literature lovers looking to step outside the book, we rounded up our favorite podcasts—from a grown-up version of Reading Rainbow to…
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Is there a scientific case for literature? A neuroscientist novelist argues yes | Salon.com
Illogical as it might seem, there may be an evolutionary reason that humans love consuming fiction By Erik Hoel, April 18, 2021 11:30PM (UTC) You do something strange every day. You consume fictions. It’s such an omnipresent habit, shared by all, that we rarely consider the oddity of it. I’m a fiction writer myself, but…
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Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration – The New York Times
Ken Burns’s latest documentary, premiering Monday on PBS, traces the complicated connections between the person, the persona and the stories By James Poniewozik, Published April 2, 2021, Updated April 3, 2021, 12:16 a.m. Hemingway, NYT Critic’s Pick One of the more unsettling moments in “Hemingway,” the latest documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, finds…
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Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche By Angus Fletcher, smithsonianmag.comMarch 10, 2021 Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city walls, a free-thinking Greek polymath by the name of Aristotle gathered up an armful of…
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(145) Teaching Hemingway: So Ugly, So Beautiful | Mark Ott | TEDxDeerfield – YouTube
Dr. Ott compares Hemingway’s carefully constructed public persona to the careful construction of Hemingway’s prose. A true master of the topic, Mark Ott draws connections between Hemingway’s style, Cezanne’s paintings, and the idea that composition applies similarly to painting, writing, and life. Mark Ott is the author of A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and…
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A Death in the Afternoon | The New Yorker
A Death in the Afternoon, By Tobias Wolff, February 20, 2021 On July 2, 1961, I was sitting in the parking lot at Convair Astronautics in San Diego, listening to music on the car radio while my older brother, Geoffrey, interviewed for a job with the company. Our father had been working there, but had…
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John D. MacDonald’s Mission to Save Florida | CrimeReads
“Last fall, as part of the annual Bouchercon celebration of mysteries and their authors, one panel was devoted to discussing a writer who’s been dead for three decades and a character who last appeared in a book when Reagan was in the White House. One of the panelists, Ace Atkins (The Sinners) showed up in…
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How Stephen King’s Wife Saved Carrie and Launched His Career | Mental Floss
How the master of horror got his first big break—and how his wife inspired him. Source: How Stephen King’s Wife Saved Carrie and Launched His Career | Mental Floss
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A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers Webcast | Library of Congress
Kim Roberts discusses her book, “A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston.” Editor’s Note: The below can be clicked to view, or visit the direct source to view the video… //cdn.loc.gov/loader/embed//embed-with-loader.php?uuid=826C070CB7190182E0538C93F1160182&size=largeWide&name=&type=V&image=//stream-media.loc.gov/webcasts/2018/180907rbk1500/data/180907rbk1500_1280x720_2000_bg.jpg Source: A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the…
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The Writer’s Almanac
Editor’s Note: I was pleased and happy to discover that Garrison Keillor had resumed his “The Writer’s Almanac” podcasts. You can listen to them here: https://art19.com/shows/the-writers-almanac “The Writer’s Almanac is a daily podcast of poetry and historical interest pieces, usually of literary significance, hosted by Garrison Keillor.” Source: The Writer’s Almanac
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Ernest Hemingway’s long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago this week – LA Times
When Ernest Hemingway produced a film about the Spanish Civil War, L.A. threw parties for him Source: Ernest Hemingway’s long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago this week – LA Times
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Scout Archives – British Library: Turning the Pages
“Turning the Pages is a software program developed by Armadillo Studios that enables libraries and museums to digitize books, manuscripts, and other documents in an engaging 3D format. Here, readers will find the British Library’s spectacular collection of items digitized with this software.” Source: Scout Archives – British Library: Turning the Pages
