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The Bay Area is still a literary haven from the mad digital world – San Francisco Chronicle
Chances are that you have because you live in the Bay Area, where books continue to beckon readers, despite the insistent siren calls of digital media. Independent bookstores have found new life, even in the growing shadow of Amazon; festivals, readings and book clubs continue to proliferate; and authors are still managing to make the…
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Discovered: Hemingway’s 99-Year-Old Letters to His High School Crush
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life, showing a seldom-seen side of the budding author in high school. Source: Discovered: Hemingway’s 99-Year-Old Letters to His High School Crush
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‘Poetry for the ear’: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature – The Washington Post
“Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that the Swedish Academy described as “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”He is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and a groundbreaking choice by the Nobel committee to select the first…
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SF Bay Area locations of literary importance – San Francisco Chronicle
Little more than a century and a half later, San Francisco is one of the most vibrant literary cities in the world. Like Jonathan Still, countless outsiders, from Mark Twain to Allen Ginsberg to Isabel Allende to Dave Eggers, have come to the Bay Area — drawn by its spirit of innovation, its inclusiveness, its…
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Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress
As part of National Poetry Month the Poetry and Literature Center has launched the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, a series of audio-recorded readings of renowned poets and prose writers reading from their work at the Library of Congress. Recordings include readings by former consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost;…
