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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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Flannery O\’ Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find part 3/3

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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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3 Interesting Articles from Ernest Hemingway’s Newspaper Career

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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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Walt Whitman reads America

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Here’s Walt Whitman reading his poem “America.” It was taken from a wax cylinder recording Thomas Edison made in 1889 or 1890—although the recording’s authenticity is somewhatdisputed. The last two lines of the poem are not read.

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Children\’s Author Mo Willems Is Inviting Kids To Draw With Him Every Day For “Lunch Doodles.”

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Best-selling children\’s author Mo Willems Is offering drawing tutorials for kids, to help fill their strange new hours One of the biggest problems right now for a family is the fact that their children can\’t go to school due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Homeschooling is not as easy as it seems, therefore various educational resources

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Interview with Raymond Chandler 2 of 4

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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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Interview with Raymond Chandler 3 of 4

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Arthur Conan Doyle Interviewed on Sherlock Holmes and Spirituality

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In a pleasant Scottish brogue, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talks about how he started writingSherlock Holmes (“I began to think of turning scientific methods, as it were, onto the work of detection”) and the character’s popularity (“I’ve even had ladies writing to say that they’d be very glad to act as [Holmes’] housekeeper”). Then the

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Rare photographs of Frida Kahlo before her death – by Gisèle Freund

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Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Images by Gisèle Freund I was born a bitch. I was born a painter. – Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo de Rivera is one of the most significant and famous painters of the 20th century. Known for her many and interesting photographs, Frida created a myth around her name and her profession

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Terry Pratchett’s Graffiti Tributes In London And Bristol, UK

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Albert Sagan for Art-Sheep Terry Pratchett\’s probably being gloriously welcomed in Discworld since he left planet Earth last month, on a one-way ride with DEATH’s white horse Binky. But his devoted fans in the UK make sure he won’t be forgotten by creating graffiti tributes for Sir Terry. So far, there are two of them,

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