Langston Hughes The Weary Blues on CBUT, 1958
Watch the famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance read his poem \”The Weary Blues,\” while the Doug Parker Band plays jazz in the background.
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Margaret Atwood Discusses Climate Change, Social Media And World Of Warcraft
Margaret Atwood is a speculative fiction writer, poet, literary critic and environmental activist. Best known for her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning classic The Handmaid\’s Tale, her more recent work includes a trilogy centered on a climate change-induced dystopia, and a collection of fantastical short stories, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales. She spoke with The Huffington Post
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3 Interesting Articles from Ernest Hemingway’s Newspaper Career
Before Ernest Hemingway was a literary giant, he was a cub reporter. When Hem graduated high school at 18, he moved to Kansas City and started a six-month stint with the Kansas City Star—a job that molded his trademark punchy, staccato style. Some of his early reporting feels rushed and raw. The pieces read
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15 Pieces of Furniture Made Out of Books
Some of these look more sculptural than cozy, but we’d be happy to have any of these genius bookish creations to furnish our apartment. 1. COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR’S DREAM This shadowbox frame overlaid with comics is perfect for displaying … comics 2. READ YOURSELF TO SLEEP The headboard of this vintage bedframe has
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30 of the Best Parents in Literature
It’s hard to find good parents in fiction. A lot of books deal either with the lack of a parent or a parent’s complete unsuitability for the role. But there are a few good ones out there, parents who make you think, “Gee, I wish my parents were like that.” Behold: Parents (or parental types) we
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The Bogus Bard: 5 Stories About Shakespeare We Wish Were True
Shakespeare’s life is as full of fiction as his plays are. In fact, historians have taken decades to separate the legends and bawdy stories from fact. Some of the juiciest tales are now debunked, while others are new theories to fill in the holes in his biography. Here are five “to-be-or-not” stories of the bard.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light BrigadeWax Cylinder Poem animation
Like a ghost from the past, Tennyson reads his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Like the Whitman recording, it too was taken from a wax cylinder Thomas Edison made in 1890. Tennyson can be hard to understand at times, especially at the poem’s most famous
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20 Of The Most Iconic Book Covers Ever
While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we\’ll spend the next two weekends revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published September 3, 2011.] We recently read an article over at We Made This in which Nick Hornby writes that “the days of the iconic jacket illustration, the image that
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Interview with Raymond Chandler 3 of 4
In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of Chandler’s voice. Listening to their conversation is like eavesdropping on two master genre writers talk shop.
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Flannery O\’ Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find part 3/3
Here’s Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find\” at Vanderbilt University in 1959.
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