Literature News

With today being St Patrick's Day, we've taken the opportunity to recommend a few classic works of Irish literature to dip into while you're enjoying a pint of Guinness.

Most people know what a utopia is. A utopia is a society or world that is perfect, in which no societal problems exist and everyone is happy.

There's a halo effect that precedes a celebrated artist's work in most arts. Did Picasso ever paint a dud? Did Beethoven ever compose a bad symphony? How about Shakespeare - did he ever write a laughably bad piece of literature? Yet, when it comes to film, the cinema is full of faux pas made by brilliant directors.

The first performance in 1988 was a whitewater rush of Dangerfieldmania. It was Armstrong Atlantic State University's first on-campus St. Pat's Day party, complete with Irish whiskey and Irish drollery.

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An estimated 3 billion to 6 billion American chestnut trees once covered forests spreading from southern Mississippi to central Maine.

TV, movies, and literature used to be filled with Butlers, that manservant to the well to do.

Margaret Gill 's prologue to Joy's review ;- It is indeed a promotional piece, but it is also a way to help people see how to read my book and more importantly, In the Castle of My Skin .

Periodically this year, we'll share ways using the library makes your life better, err, awesome! Here are three quick hits for readers: 1. Whether it's Hollywood gossip or classic literature that you just gotta have, start at tscpl.org/downloads .

The new winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction on her literary city and how it inspires her writing.

In the past 40 years the descriptions of Mormon literature published by Eugene England and his successors have designated oratory as one of the primary forms of our literary output, one that Church members are most familiar with.

Fulton grad Thomas Andrews, now studying at the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh, Scotland, has written his first book.

I noticed something about the Russian and English literary works when I went on vacation recently.

After a longish hiatus, time to resume the occasional mash-up of SNLC with the Metropolitan Opera HD-cast series begun by DK'er Demi Moaned some time back.

In anticipation of the UK's biggest comics exhibition to date, Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK, the British Library has unveiled a brand new artwork by 'Tank Girl' and 'Gorillaz' co-creator, Jamie Hewlett, featuring a sassy new female character.

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Huntingtower was a departure for John Buchan. Published between the third and fourth of his tremendous Richard Hannay novels, the book's protagonist is not a soldier-turned-spy, but instead a retired Scottish grocer who joins a quixotic effort to rescue a Russian noblewoman from Bolsheviks.

That's a collective "we," not meant to single out or even suggest any individual, although it is individuals who do the thinking and acting in this world.

When it comes to our children getting a rounded education we should make time for imagination and our own literary heritage, says the Literature Wales boss The poet recalls dreaming "with unclosed lids" during a school lesson, thinking fondly of home and playtime, until he wakes to the sound of the classroom door opening.

Sharon Adams, left, Cindy Kube, Kim Baker and Lucy Swingle discuss "Dear Life," a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.