Last year, Michael Ian Black (he of Stella, The State, and Michael & Michael Have Issues) tried his best to stir up a good ole fashioned literary grudge-match (or maybe it was more of a foofaraw). Seems MIB decided that the best way to flog his new book of humorous essays, My Custom Van, was to set his sights on the undisputed king of the genre, Mr. David Sedaris. He even offered some helpful ...

Kisufim: The Jerusalem Conference of Jewish Writers and Poets, an annual literary conference in Jerusalem, is getting under way in two weeks. Several Hartman Institute scholars are participating. Senior Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum is hosting a session on poet Paul Celan, and participating in a video-enhanced seminar with Cynthia Ozick and others with the title of “Different

This book, far different from those I typically review for their Simple-Green-Frugal-ness, just had to be shared. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - the book with the silly name, yet one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. A story entirely told in letters, I was immediately swept away to Guernsey Island, nestled neatly between France ...

... the Literary Laureate Award is looming — December 14th. As a member of the Literary Laureate Committee I would very much like to see as many nominations come in as possible. In addition to the distinction of being the first ... be returned and become the property of the Inlandia Institute Criteria for Inlandia Literary Laureate Does the nominee * Live or work in the Inland Empire * Write in ...

... from a source-critical analysis. But Baden does not use his critique in order to write off literary criticism. Rather, he concludes: The question necessarily becomes: Can source criticism and modern ... about when one method is used to address the questions for which the other was intended—that is, when modern literary criticism, the goal of which is to provide the modern reader with the tools ...

... -y term papers and my opinion that the marketplace is moving toward accessible literary fiction, and then some used that as ammo against what they perceive as a culture of snobbish literature that is ... that celebrates mass appeal rather than the elite. Which definitely has its benefits: I happen to really like literary fiction that is both meaningful and accessible, such as KAVALIER AND CLAY, and I ...