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Online short story of the day
In which we provide links to our favorite short stories.
:: STARTED BY deja_vroom
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:03 25.01.08
David Foster Wallace and the Illuminatus vs. Bright-Eyed Undergraduates
Help save a plucky undergrad from crushing defeat at the hands of the finals examiners by talking to his weary tutor about 'Infinite Jest' and whether or not it bears anything but a passing resemblance to the 'Illuminatus!' books.
:: STARTED BY ginger
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:09 24.01.08
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
Kurt Vonnegut beginner's guide
:: STARTED BY Alex Thoth
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:27 17.01.08
Gravity's Rainbow
In equal parts it's an incorrible, impenetrable horror of a book, and in others it seems inspired, evanescent, ridiculously intelligent, moving... does anyone else feel the same? Opinions seem divided about GR between seeing it as genius or obscure pap.
:: STARTED BY Dee Vapr
:: 45 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:52 16.01.08
Dexter in the Dark
The third Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay
:: STARTED BY lille christina
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:48 15.01.08
Soon I Will Be Invincible!
A novel from the perspective of a supervillain...
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:08 08.01.08
Film and Music Writing
new magazine launched - need contributors and feedback.
:: STARTED BY sandro.
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:27 03.01.08
The Sexual Life of Catherine M
Catherine Millet and The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Orgies galore. Has anyone read it?
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:16 26.12.07
2007: What are you currently reading?
You know the score by now. What you have/are/will be reading and how it's going for you.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady in Her Haus
:: 346 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:18 25.12.07
Crossroads of Twilight
I hate Robert Jordan, no doubt he hates me, screw the Crossroads of Twilight: a book I don't want to read. Comments here-
:: STARTED BY Tryphena Absent
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:13 22.12.07
J.G. Ballard
Condensed novels, computerised sex and charges of outright nihilism.
:: STARTED BY GogMickGog
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:09 11.12.07
The silly lovely delight that is Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman illustrates and writes books for children. You should strongly consider purchasing these books for yourself and never letting any children get their grubby sticky hands on them.
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:26 10.12.07
Help me stock a feminist store
If you were setting up a feminist bookstore, what would you put on the (virtual) shelves?
:: STARTED BY Jester
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:36 05.12.07
The End of the Hardback?
Picador announce they will no longer publish new titles in hardbacks. Is this something that should have happened ages ago?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady in Her Haus
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:41 28.11.07
Christopher Priest
The author of The Prestige, The Glamour, The Extremes, and no one else.
:: STARTED BY Blake Head
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:26 27.11.07
College Magazine
I've recently joined a poor college magazine commitee, in the hope to improve the magazine. Any ideas how I can achieve this?
:: STARTED BY Opheliac
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:41 23.11.07
The Martin Amis Thread
Come to praise / bury the author of, among novels, The Rachel Papers, Money, London Fields, The Information and House of Meetings. Keywords/ phrases might include: Masculinity, class, race, gender, style, criticism, Stalin, 'Islamism', Bellow, Nabokov, Daddy issues and telling Julian Barnes to Fuck Off.
:: STARTED BY Glenn Close But No Cigar
:: 59 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:37 23.11.07
On the road...
"And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell."
Keywords: Jack Kerouac / Dharma Bums / Visions of Cody, Ginsberg / William Burroughs / Charles Bukowski / The Beat Poets .
:: STARTED BY Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:53 17.11.07
David Peace
David Peace, crime fic's his game, is blessed with an inappropriate name; for in his books you'll find no calm, but plenty panic and alarm.
:: STARTED BY Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:28 16.11.07
Who's Philip K. Dick?
Philip K Dick 101 and general discussion
:: STARTED BY Alex Thoth
:: 128 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:42 14.11.07
Sergei Lukyanenko: Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk/Twilight Watch, Final Watch.
Night Watch! Everyone step out of the the Twilight!
:: STARTED BY Shiny
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:17 09.11.07
The Blair Years
Tony Blair's powerful press secretary Alastair Campbell has published his diaries of his time in Downing Street.
:: STARTED BY Fist Fun
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:29 07.11.07
Elementary. my dear Conan Doyle.
A fan of Sir Arthur, Doctor Watson and that other bloke requests pointers for decent pastiches and heads for anthologies.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:10 05.11.07
Elric
Tell me about Michael Moorcock's seminal series of sword & sorcery. Primarily: is it any good?
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:00 29.10.07
Looking for author recommendation website
Do you know the website that recommends authors?
:: STARTED BY David Roel
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:19 28.10.07
The Cuckoo's Egg
Cifford Stoll's real-life computer security thriller! Long-haired astronomer-turned-sysadmin tracks down KGB spies through the tubes!
:: STARTED BY pfhlick
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:08 19.10.07
The Flashman Thread
In which we discuss George MacDonald Fraser's carousing poltroon Harry Paget Flashman, anti-hero of a series of (arguably politically suspect) comic novels.
:: STARTED BY Glenn Close But No Cigar
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:40 17.10.07
2007 nobel for literature
doris lessing has been awarded a nobel. discuss.
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:44 12.10.07
Books as objects.
In which we decide that you CAN judge a book by the cover.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:39 11.10.07
In Praise of the Poet Geoffrey Hill
The writer of Mercian Hymns, Tenebrae, Orchards of Syon; a thread about his new book and for discussion.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:57 07.10.07
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