Tag: literature

  • 14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature

    14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch – Mic.

  • Good Advice from Zadie Smith

    Good Advice from Zadie Smith

    Zadie Smith’s rules for writers | Books | guardian.co.uk.

  • Why People Should Read Fiction

    A writer at Forbes explains how reading fiction helps business leaders (and really, everyone) become more emotionally perceptive. She writes that “it seems that reading fiction improves your sensitivity to and appreciation of complex human situations; it provides a richer ‘toolkit’ of understanding from which to pull when making decisions and building relationships. And as…

  • Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism

    Check out this page that Purdue University’s OWL has on lit theory and the various schools of criticism.  They have good, brief descriptions of psychoanalytic, Marxist, postcolonial, and queer studies (among others).  

  • Happy birthday, Eudora!

    Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi.  She wrote some of my favorite works of fiction and some of my favorite essays about fiction.  In “Must the Novelist Crusade?” she writes, “What distinguishes [fiction] above all from the raw material, and what distinguishes it from journalism, is that inherent in the…