Folger Shakespeare Library director Michael Witmore is using 21st-century tools to analyze the Bard's work. When data-mining techniques borrowed from the sciences and business research were applied to classic Shakespearean plays, surprising discoveries were made.READ MORE›
Last year, Brooklyn photographer Peter Ross got rare access to something every 16-year-old kid who writes bad poetry and quotes generously from Naked Lunch would kill for: William S. Burroughs’s old pied-à-terre in New York City. ...READ MORE›
You know how your iPhone is now an essential tool for finding something to eat? Penguin hopes to offer the same help for people wanting something to read. READ MORE›
The traditionalist may sneer at any effort to "sex up" literature with techno-interactive gewgaws, but Coloring Book Studio makes a more elegant attempt than most. Their new site, called "New Storytelling," displays a strange, ...READ MORE›
There are plenty of interactive iOS apps offering "ambient" media experiences with soothing sounds and gentle visuals. Opertoon's "Strange Rain" might be easily mistaken for one of them at first glance, with its gorgeously dour ...READ MORE›
We've all got books on our shelves that we know are amazing, but we just haven't quite, um... bothered to read. There's no shame in admitting David Foster Wallace's doorstop of a novel Infinite Jest is one of them. A thousand-page ...READ MORE›
A crafty new submissions policy from Tin House Books is reminding writers to be readers—and consumers.The book press and quarterly literary magazine's recent call for manuscripts welcomes unsolicited submissions but comes with a ...READ MORE›
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