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I agree with some of the other posts in that reading schedules sound, in theory, like a better idea than just reading literature out of context of its period yet it feels very constricting and...

Thank you for the informative reply. I am actually very interested in Greek history and mythology, but I never quite knew how to start with such an autodidactic quest (also, the History of Ancient...

My book isn't a literature cannon like most people: The Last Samurai (which has nothing to do with the film). It's Helen Dewitt's debut novel. I read it when I was 12 years old, and I believe it to...

The kindle is generally looked down upon amongst tech aficionados from what I've read. It seems that the Plastic Logic model and the iRex model are seen as the best and most effective across formats...

Thank you for the replies everyone. Oedipus sounds like a good start. I'll see what translations my library carries and get what I like most. Maybe next year when I'm through with Ancient Greek I'll...

The Sun Also Rises
Faust, all of Part 1 and some of Part 2
Dante's Inferno
The Sorrows of the Young Werther
Ezra Pound's Personae
The Odyssey & Iliad (again)
Lord of the Rings
Moby Dick
The...

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I'd like to start reading some of the great Greek dramas. My English classes haven't gone anywhere near the better Shakespeare plays, let alone Aeschylus or Sophocles. I want to know what...

I just saw Mister Lonely with my sister. What a bizarre film... about as relevant all together as cucumbers are to goats. The film weaves many deranged look-a-likes together: Marilyn Monroe, Michael...

Nightshade
Logos
Scheherazade

Especially the last one because it reminds of Rimsky-Korsakov.

Taking Leave of a Friend

Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
White river winding about them;
Here we must make separation
And go out through a thousand miles of dead grass.

Mind like a...

Hi,

Since this was a school project, brought to life only out of coercion, you know that these aren't going to be very good. I thought I'd share them anyway:

In the Face of Death

A grand...

I didn't like cummings either, but I always reasoned that it was because he was shoved down my throat in Freshman English. Very few authors and writers stay on my good side after I'm coerced into...

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.

I loved it, but found it fatally flawed at the same time. It was a rather personal work, and the overall goal of the film was to dissect Maddin's hometown and childhood...

To whom it may concern, I've found a writer's magazine, which also has links to other writer's magazines scattered on this page.

Well, I really didn't find it... It took a lot of run-around with...

Franz Ferdinand - Ghost in a Ditch

For some god-forsaken reason, I can't stop listening to it, especially the youtube video of Nick McCarthy singing and playing guitar solo. It makes me want to...

I think that's a very good definition, and could be used for music and visual art as well. Though I think that the immediately political could also be added to that list.



Yes, I actually just...

Hi,

I was speaking to an editor of a poetry journal a few days ago, and he said that one of the most essential criteria for poetry to be submitted in his magazine was that it must "venture out of...

The British--and, IMO, proper--way to pronounce it is, like Dori said, similar to annihilation.

However, the common American way is with an /e/ sound, like "knee." Personally, I think this is...

I'm back from the bookstore and I'm ready to tell you what I think of them.

First, The Writer. This magazine was not about writing per se, more on the economic side of being a writer and how to...

Sweet. I'll take a trip to B&N tomorrow and check out the magazine section.

Thanks a lot. You were a great help. :)

I saw those and Poets & Writers, and I was reluctant to check them out because of both my creeping paranoia against popular magazines and their ubiquity on Google, which shows an active corporate...

Thanks for the suggestions.

To be honest, I didn't like Poetry, but I did find a good poetry subscription through Arts and Letters Daily: an extraction publishing called Poetry Daily. It's very...

Hello,

Could someone suggest poetry magazines from the US and UK that they know to be particularly good? Maybe some tips on picking magazines as well?

Thanks a ton.

I just saw it and I thought it was fantastic.

Agreed with mono that it was a beautiful piece of work, but I think that the non-linear telling was quite fitting for Hunter S. Thompson's...

English as a mother tongue and French as a second language (I do communicate day-to-day in it :ladysman:). Russian is next on my hitlist.