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The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers | Flavorwire | Page 6 It’s an interesting relationship that book lovers have with the Internet: most would rather read a physical book than something on an iPad or Kindle, and even though an Amazon purchase is just two or three clicks away, dedicated readers would rather take a trip to their local indie bookstore. Yet the literary world occupies a decent-sized space on the web. Readers, writers, publishers, editors, and everybody in between are tweeting, Tumbling, blogging, and probably even Vine-ing about their favorite books. In case the demise of Google Reader threw your literary Internet browsing into a dark void, here’s a list of 25 book sites to bookmark. The Millions Ten years is a mighty long time in terms of Internet life, but that’s how long The Millions has been kicking out a steady stream of reviews, essays, and links.

Word Spy Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial homepage of the New Zealand book community The Yellow Site | Fandom powered by Wikia Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture December 12, 1976 Listen to an Audio Recording of Saul Bellow's Nobel Lecture (paragraph 1-3)* 11 min. I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. This fervent statement was written some 80 years ago and we may want to take it with a few grains of contemporary salt. I feel no need now to sprinkle Conrad's sentences with skeptical salt. On an occasion like this I have no appetite for polemics. But I am interested here in the question of the artist's priorities. The message of Robbe-Grillet is not new. The title of Robbe-Grillet's essay is On Several Obsolete Notions. The fact that the death notice of character "has been signed by the most serious essayists" means only that another group of mummies, the most respectable leaders of the intellectual community, has laid down the law. There is no reason why a novelist should not drop "character" if the strategy stimulates him. Characters, Elizabeth Bowen once said, are not created by writers. What is at the center now?

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