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Day Jobs of the Poets. Have you seen James Patterson’s personally-funded “book industry bailout” ads? By a hair, print still trumps digital in the UK. “How I overcame snobbery to self-publish an e-book.” One man’s story. Gillian Flynn: “That’s exactly my goal: to make spouses look askance at each other.”
Take a look at these inspiring places where some of the greatest artists, painters, writers, poets and designers used to work.
There's more to poetry than Shakespeare!
I’ve just finished making some Medlar Jelly from fruit gathered in my local park. Medlars are forgotten and neglected now like quince and mulberries, but John Evelyn had Medlar trees in his …
From Lester Bangs to Zora Neale Hurston, read a list of poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib's all-time favorite books.
An exhaustive new biography of Brautigan will change the way we remember the poet and novelist.
From Robert Louis Stevenson to D.H. Lawrence, read a list of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's favorite book recommendations.
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It was 155 years ago today that French poet Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) was published, leading to his prosecution for obscenity charges. He was heavily fined and struggled with a ban against the work for years. Still, the volume centering on themes of eroticism, memory, death, corruption, and decadence had a number of admirers who applauded the poet’s unyielding words. Madame Bovary author Gustave Flaubert told Buadelaire he had “found a way to rejuvenate Romanticism,” while others called the work “immense, prodigious, and unexpected.” Although his tempestuous, bohemian lifestyle and philosophies garnered much attention, Baudelaire’s radical use of composition and verse resonated and had a significant impact on later poets and the literary world at large. He wasn’t alone, however. We explored several other early radical poets past the
For poets, it seems, you have to fit into one camp or the other: to be, or not to be. For Dylan Thomas it was certainly ‘to be’ – but was he right to rage against death, wonders Andy Martin
John Steinbeck liked to write with a pencil. He sharpened twenty-four pencils every morning with which he would do his day’s work. With one pencil he could write a full-page on a yellow legal pad before the point was blunt. His writing was tiny. Crabbed up knots that sometimes needed a magnifying glass to decipher. … Continue reading "‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing"
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.” Billy Collins, poet, writing
Mournful teenage poetesses and literature nerds light a candle; today would have been the incomparable Sylvia Plath’s 80th birthday. Though depressed for much of her life, Plath’s incisive poetry and prose continues to sink its teeth into new…
George Sand was a French writer with a notorious love life and a preference for male clothing. Among her lovers was the composer Chopin.
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