100 Best Fictional Characters since 1900

Heard any Good Books Lately?
Heard Any Good Books.mp3 (5min, 1MB)When pneumonia wiped me out for about two months in the fall of 2007,...

Does Reading Literature Prepare Students for the "real world"?
This article from NCTE comes at a good time for me, since I'm scheduled to teach a "Writing about Literature"...

Facebook Student Projects
In the past few hours, I've gotten Friend requests from Jay Gatsby and Nick Carroway, as well as a a...

Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature - Boing Boing
Another thought-provoking link from BoingBoing. Maybe the language is a bit alarmist, but that's what gets the linkers linking.The Authors...

Why Dead Authors Can Thrill Modern Readers
An interesting introduction to literary Darwinism, from LiveScience.com:Carroll hypothesized that modern readers would gravitate toward protagonists who displayed pro-social tendencies...