... from incorporating Idyll Press' prayers for a Catholic literary revival into my daily orisons. How so?  I finally finished Mariette ... have read it in a couple of days. Let me back up a little bit.When I pray for a Catholic literary revival, it is in part for today's ... ice cream. Then I started my prayer for a Catholic literary revival, having commited myself in email to incorporating it into my daily ...

... or Alice Munroe. What would you get if science fiction novels and stories were more "literary"? It wouldn't necessarily make them better, or even help them gain respectability. But here's a random, and ... not sparklingly. There are usually way too many adverbs, too many passive sentences, and too much use of the verb "to be." In literary writing, by contrast, there's an obsession with prose style. ...

... travel community, put together the top 10 literary destinations in the world, according to its editors. These locations have either been the home ... immense collection. According to a TripAdvisor traveller, "One of my highlights was going on a 'literary pub crawl' in Greenwich Village retracing ... Hemingway and Albert Camus, the City of Light's literary vibe lives on. One TripAdvisor traveller recommends ...

... fiction a genre?' I was interested in this assertion: ' … I think the most characteristic feature of literary fiction is the absence, or at least the downplaying, of plot, and of narrative in general.'I ... of children's literature come close to Bransford's idea of 'commercial literary fiction'. Just because there is a strong above-surface plot doesn't mean there are not also all sorts of fascinating ...

Symposium on Literary TranslationUniversity of Georgia, AthensThursday 10/2 and Friday 10/3Featuring: PETER COLE, FORREST GANDER, MICHAEL HENRY HEIM, DAVIDHINTON, PIERRE JORIS, SUSANNA NIED, RICHARD SIEBURTH, and COLE SWENSEN.Thursday, October 2 (UGA Chapel, North Campus):Opening session, 2:30-4:00 p.m.Public reading, 4:30-6:30 p.m.Friday, October 3 (Fanning Institute, 1240 S. Lumpkin Street): ...

... with the metaphor of closeness. I offer here one example. James Wood, no great friend to the anti-Kantian conception of criticism, has nevertheless written some of the most extraordinary pieces of contemporary literary criticism. One of his greatest is an essay called "What Chekhov Meant by Life." Reading this essay transformed and heightened my sense of what Chekhov is doing as an artist. Not in ...