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General Resources in Contemporary Literature |
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About.com: Contemporary Literature Reading Lists (suggested reading lists) |
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Academy of American Poets |
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Birthdays of the Month of Contemporary Authors (About.com) |
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Bohemian Ink: Guide to Writers of Coffee, Angst, & Experimentation |
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Homepage (very large, well-organized site covering both the historical canon and modern / contemporary authors) (Christopher D. Ritter) |
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Contemporary Literature Archives: |
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Global Bohemian Authors |
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Modern Boheme ("present day bohemian writers paving furture experimental paths") |
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Booker Prize Author List (Booker Prize winning and shortlisted authors, with links to pages for each author containing a bio, bibliography, and other information) (Bradley C. Shoop, U. Tennessee, Chattanooga) |
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British Literary Prizes (Merritt Moseley) |
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Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English |
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Homepage of Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English (extensive, well-organized site) (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Bibliography |
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Themes |
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Contemporary American Poetry Archive ("electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of [North American] poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files") (Wendy Battin) |
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Electronic Poetry Center (Poetics Program, State U. of New York at Buffalo) |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), Brian Finney's Website (includes Finney's essays on twentieth-century literary authors) |
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Internet Poetry Archive (selected poetry and biographies of featured contemporary poets) |
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Michigan State University Celebrity Lecture Series (pictures, voice samples, brief info, and bibliographies for major contemporary literary authors writing in English--e.g., Angelou, Atwood, Doctorow, Heller, Mailer, Oates, Roth, Sontag, Walcott) |
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On-Line Literary Resources: Twentieth-Century (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.) |
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Poets in Person (audio files of poets reading, plus brief info about the poets) (Modern Poetry Assoc. & American Library Assoc.) |
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Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (large page of annotated links to poetry resources) (Michael Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe U., Japan) |
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The Write Stuff -- Interviews with Contemporary Authors (altX) |
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Contemporary Amerian Authors, Works, Projects |
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General Contemporary American Resources |
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American Literature on the Web: Since 1945 (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki C. of Foreign Languages, Japan) |
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Jewish American Literature Research Homepage (bibliographies of primary and secondary works on major contemporary authors and filmmakers) (Derek Royal, Purdue U.) |
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KYLT: A Site Devoted to Kentucky Writers (English Dept., Eastern Kentucky U.) |
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Multicultural U.S. Fiction Web: U.S. Fiction Since 1950 (pedagogically-oriented introduction to the concept, history, documents, and fiction of American multiculturalism; includes links and study guides) (Richard Pearce, Wheaton C.) |
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SouthWatch ("selected resources, essays, and reviews of [U.S.] Southern literature") (Robert Sterling Gingher) |
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Edward Abbey |
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Edward Abbey (Abbey's Web) |
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Kathy Acker |
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General Resources |
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Currently Available Books by Kathy Acker (Booksmith) |
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Kathy Acker Page (Trevor Dodge) |
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Kathy Acker Page |
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Kathy Acker Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Kathy Acker Page (Henry W. Targowski) |
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Criticism |
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Daniel Punday (Purdue Un. Calumet), "Theories of Materiality and Location: Moving Through Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless" (1998) (Genders) |
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Eric Weitzel (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Kathy Acker's Great Expectations: Plagiarism, the Sick, and the Dead " (1997) (Thresholds) |
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Interviews |
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Literary Witches Interview: "Consorting with Hecate" |
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Trevor Dodge, "I Lost My Soul in Fan Francisco: An Interview/Journal Entry Starring Kathy Acker, Portland, and Pussy" (1996) |
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"Kathy Acker in Conversation with Angela McRobbie" (recording that must be ordered; "Post-structuralist and postmodern writing - influence of William Burroughs - the cut up method - human body as source of inspiration and focus of anxiety - 70s American punk culture") |
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R.U. Sirius, "Kathy Acker: Where Does She Get Off?" (interview) (io magazine) |
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Rosie X, "Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance" (interview) (geekgirl) |
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Writings & Recordings |
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Algeria (Trevor Dodge) |
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Blood and Guts in High School (excerpt) (Trevor Dodge) |
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Empire of the Senseless (excerpts) (Trevor Dodge) |
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"The Gift of Disease" (1996) ("I am going to tell this story as I know it. Even now, it is strange to me. I have no idea why I am telling it. I have never been sentimental. Perhaps just to say that it happened. In April of this year, 1996, I was diagnosed with breast cance |
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"The Language of the Body" (CTheory) |
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Mekons (sound-file excerpt from Acker's record) (Trevor Dodge) |
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Politics (excerpt) (Trevor Dodge) |
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Pussy, King of the Pirates (excerpts and reviews) (Trevor Dodge) |
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A Reading List in Support of the French Novel Form, le recit (Trevor Dodge) |
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Speech for the Artist in Society Conference, Chicago, Oct.1994 (Trevor Dodge) |
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Adrienne Rich (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Sherman Alexie, "At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" (poem) (Karen Strom) |
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Allen Ginsberg (on Modern Literature page) |
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Maya Angelou |
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Maya Angelou Page (Scott Williams) |
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Maya Angelou (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Maya Angelou Explains "signifying" (audio file) |
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Anita Endrezze Page (Karen Strom, U. Mass.) |
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Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles Page |
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Anniina's Amy Tan Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
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A. R. Ammons (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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John Ashbery |
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"For John Clare" (Leslie Chow) |
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John Ashbery (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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John Ashbery (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) |
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Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Page (Michael Borshuk) |
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Beats (See Also Individual Authors On This Page And On |
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Beat Generation (Bohemian Ink) |
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The Beats Page ("Literary Kicks" Page) |
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Homepage (Levi Asher) |
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Beat Bibliography (Sherri) |
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Beat Connections in Rock Music |
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The Beats (Film List) |
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Origin of the Word "Beat" |
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Recent Beat News |
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Mike Janssen, "The Influence of Jazz on the Beat Generation" (1994) |
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Dodie Bellamy |
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Hysteria Conversion (Dodie Bellamy Page) (Earl Jackson, Jr., U. California, Santa Cruz) |
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Charles Bernstein (State U. Of New York, Buffalo) |
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Charles Bernstein (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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"I Don't Take Voice Mail" |
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"Pound & Man at Yale" (e-mail messages to the POETICS list) |
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"Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation" (1995) (essay) |
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Review of Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (1994) (Project Muse, Johns Hopkins U. Press) |
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"The Second War and Postmodern Memory" (1991) (poem/prose) (Postmodern Culture) |
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"Warning Poetry Area: Publics Under Construction" (1996) (essay) |
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Elizabeth Bishop |
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Elizabeth Bishop Homepage (Lou Duggan) |
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Elizabeth Bishop Page (Vassar C. Libraries) |
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The Elizabeth Bishop Site |
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Homepage (Daniel Anderson, U. Texas, Austin) |
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Biography |
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Brazil |
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Composition |
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Letters |
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Media |
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Poetry |
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Prose |
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Library Collections of Elizabeth Bishop's Papers (info on major holdings in the U.S.) (Vassar C. Libraries) |
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Register of Elizabeth Bishop Papers at Vassar C. Library (Vassar C. Libraries) |
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Paul Bowles |
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www.PaulBowles.org ("the authorized Paul Bowles Web Site") |
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Paul Bowles Page at Literary Kicks |
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A Paul Bowles Page (Peter Murray) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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"We Real Cool" (Mary Anne Mohanraj) |
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Charles Bukowski |
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buk's page (bio and info about Charles Bukowski) |
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Charles Bukowski Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Charles Bukowski Page |
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Charles Bukowski: An Introduction to Bukowski, His Works, and Critical Texts (Damon Sauve / Oyster Boy Review) |
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Carter Revard Page (Karen Strom, U. Mass.) |
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Raymond Carver |
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Carver Web (Raymond Carver page) (Mike Welker) |
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Raymond Carver Page (Phil Carson) |
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Charles Olson (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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Charles Wright (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Lucille Clifton, Selected Poems |
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Robert Creeley |
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Robert Creeley Page (Andrew L. Graham (Keele U.) |
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Robert Creeley (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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Don Delillo |
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Don Delillo Web Site (English Dept., U. British Columbia) |
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Don DeLillo's America |
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Homepage (Curt Gardner) |
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Bio |
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DeLillo on Writing |
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Interviews and |
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Lit Crit |
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Novels |
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Other Writing |
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Plays |
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Reviews |
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Stories |
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(conference) Don DeLillo: "At the Edges of Perception" (March 25-26, 1998, Rutgers U.) |
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Rita Dove |
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"Lady Freedom Among Us" (UVA etext) |
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Rita Dove Page |
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Rita Dove (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Johanna Drucker |
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The History of the/my Wor(l)d (Granary Books) |
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Virginia), Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography (in-progress hypertext and VRML dissertation being written "real-time" on the net; concerns the work of textuality theorist/artist Johanna Drucker) |
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"Offset Printing as a Creative Medium" |
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E. L. Doctorow (lectures series announcement, with selected bibliography, audio, and photo) (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence, Interview with Bret Easton Ellis (1994) (The Write Stuff) |
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Eudora Welty |
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Eudora Welty on the Internet (Center for the Study of Southern Culture, U. Mississippi / Henry P. Mills) |
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Gary Soto (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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William Gass |
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Criticism |
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John Unsworth (U. Virginia), "William Gass's The Tunnel: The Work in Progress as Post-Modern Genre" (1992) |
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William Gibson |
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"Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)" (text of the limited-edition, read-once/self-destroying, art-book poem) |
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The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: A Web Site (site includes critical apparatus and essays) (David Dodd, U. California, Santa Cruz) |
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Gregory Corso |
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Paula Gunn Allen |
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"Purple" |
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"Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins" (Karen Strom) |
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Joy Harjo (Karen Strom) |
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"Autobiography" |
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"Eagle Poem" |
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"Grace" |
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"Javelina" |
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Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice Page |
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"Reconciliation: A Prayer" |
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"Santa Fe" |
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"September Moon" |
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"She Had Some Horses" |
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John Hawkes |
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Criticism |
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John Unsworth (U. Virginia), "Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes" -1991 |
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Joseph Heller |
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Joseph Heller Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Joseph Heller (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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James Merrill (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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John Cage (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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Karl Shapiro (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Galway Kinnell |
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"The Correspondence School Instructors Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students" (Mary Anne Mohanraj) |
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Jerzy Kosinski |
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(interview) William Gallo, "Jerzy Kosinski: Writing by Chance and Necessity" (1977) (Joshua Berlow / Rocky Mountain News) |
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The Painted Bird (brief excerpt) (Paul Tucker, U. California, San Diego) |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Audre Lorde |
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Selected Poetry (Mary Anne Mohanraj) |
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The Man Behind Maus: Art Spiegelman in his Own Words (with Chris Goffard) |
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Maxine Kumin (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Rigoberta Menchu |
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Interview with Rigoberta Menchu (Paula Giese) |
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Michael Mollo, A Purgatory of Semiotics (poetry) |
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N. Scott Momaday |
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"The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee" (Karen Strom) |
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"Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu" (Karen Strom) |
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From The Names (Karen Strom) |
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Unofficial N. Scott Momaday Page (Adora La Poz) |
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Norman Mailer (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Marsha Norman |
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Concordance to 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman (Iowa State U.) |
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Ntozake Shange (Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) |
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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Celestial Timepiece: Joyce Carol Oates Page (Randy Souther) |
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Joyce Carol Oates (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Sharon Olds |
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Modernist Conversations: Sharon Olds and Countee Cullen (juxtaposes poems by the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship) (Cherie Bosarge, Laura Venegas) |
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Sharon Olds (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Cynthia Ozick Page (Bedford/St. Martin's) |
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Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U.) |
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Marjorie Perloff (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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"Something Is Happening, Mr. Jones" (Electronic Book Review) |
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Thomas Pynchon |
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General Resources |
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Thomas Pynchon Page (Akihito Ishikawa) |
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Thomas Pynchon Pages (Tom Ware) |
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San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Page |
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Spermatikos Logos (The Libyrinth) |
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Archive of PYNCHON-L mailing list for 1992-93 |
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Criticism |
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Wes Chapman (Illinois Wesleyan U.), "Male Pro-Feminism and the Masculinist Gigantism of Gravity's Rainbow" (1996) (Postmodern Culture) |
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Nick Spencer (Emory U.), "Clausewitz and Pynchon: Post-Romantic War in Gravity's Rainbow" (1996) (Carole Meyers) |
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Writings |
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"Is it O.K. to Be a Luddite?" (1984) (New York Times Book Review / Spermatikos Logos) |
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Online Pynchon Papers ("Although Pynchon is best known for his novels, he has also penned a copious amount of essays, articles, cover blurbs, and liner notes; many of which have found their way onto the Web. This page contains some of these writings . . |
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Tom Robbins |
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Tom Robbins Page (Dale Kirby) |
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Ron Silliman (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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Philip Roth |
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Philip Roth Society |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Roth's Counterlife: Destabilizing The Facts" (1993) |
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Philip Roth (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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J.D. Salinger |
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Bananafish Home: J.D. Salinger Page (collaboratively-produced page) (Steven Foskett) |
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J.D. Salinger Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Anne Sexton |
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Anne Sexton Home Page (Ari Frankel) |
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Anne Sexton Archive |
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Modernist Conversations: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Two Confessional Poets (juxtaposes poems by the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship) (Lori Jendusa) |
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"My Friend, My Friend" (Lori Jendusa) |
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Gary Snyder |
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Gary Snyder |
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Gary Snyder Page (from The Language of Life with Bill Moyers) |
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Stanley Elkin Research Page (bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Derek Royal, Purdue U.) |
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Susan Howe (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo) |
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Susan Sontag (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Tom Wolfe (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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Truman Capote Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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John Updike |
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The Centaurian - A John Updike Website for Information and Discussion |
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Dwight Garner, Interview: John Updike (Salon) |
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kurt Vonnegut Home Page (Kevin A. Boon) |
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Kurt Vonnegut (Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series) |
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The Unofficial Kurt Vonnegut Page (Brian Briscott) |
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Alice Walker |
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Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
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"I Said to Poetry" (Mary Anne Mohanraj) |
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Selected Bibliography of The Color Purple (Louisiana C.) |
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Web Page of Toni Morrison's Beloved (English 316K, U. Texas, Austin) |
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W. S. Merwin (audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person) |
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Contemporary British Authors, Works, Projects |
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Peter Ackroyd |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Peter Ackroyd, Postmodernist Play and Chatterton" (1992) |
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Martin Amis |
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Criticism |
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James Diedrick (Albion C.), "Notes from the Urban Underground: Money" (from Understanding Martin Amis, Chap. 3) |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach)
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Interviews |
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Alexander Laurence and Kathleen McGee, "No More Illusions: Martin Amis is Getting Old and Wants to Talk About It" (interview) (The Write Stuff) |
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Will Self, An Interview with Martin Amis |
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Martin Amis Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Martin Amis Page (Bradley Shoop and Alice O'Dea) |
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The Martin Amis Web (James Diedrick, Albion C.) |
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J.G. Ballard |
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General Resources |
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Crash Movie (Official Site) (Fine Line Features) |
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The Electronic Labyrinth: J.G. Ballard (The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. Virginia) |
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J.G. Ballard Page (Craig Sauer, Simon's Rock C.) |
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J.G. Ballard (bibliography) (Alpha Ralpha Boulevard) |
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www.jgballard.com (Spike Magazine - unofficial site with discussion forum and good list of links) |
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"No False Prophet": J.G. Ballard in Profile (The Good Book Guide) (Brief bio and partial bibliography of novels) |
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Interviews |
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Lukas Barr, "Don't Crash Psychosis, Euthanasia, Apocalypse and Other Fun Ideas: An Interview with J.G. Ballard" (1995) (KGB Media, Inc.) |
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Evans, Gareth Interview with Ballard and Review of the Collected Short Stories (Independent Newspaper, UK) |
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Hoffman, Martin 45-minute Streaming Video Interview following publication of Empire of The Sun (The Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art: A great resource with over 300 hours of streaming video available for free viewing) |
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Sturton, Edward Streaming Audio Interview on the "English Identity Crisis" (08/2001) (BBC Radio 4 - Today Program (see link to audio under "Search Results" on the right-hand side)) |
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Sutcliffe, Thomas The Shopping Mall Psychopath: Interview (Independent Newspaper, UK) |
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Sutherland, John "Scanning the Empty Road with Binoculars": (The Good Book Guide) |
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Primary Texts |
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Ballard, J.G. Super-Cannes - First Chapter (Guardian Unlimited) |
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Ballard, J.G. "What I Believe" |
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Reviews |
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Lalumiere, Claude Review of Super-Cannes (January Magazine) |
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McGucken, Dennis M. (Millsaps College) Review of Brigg's J.G. Ballard (Science Fiction Studies #51: Volume 17, Part 2, July 1990 (middle of page)) |
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Moss, Stephen Review of Super-Cannes, and the trouble with fiction reviewing (Guardian Unlimited) |
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Index of NYT Reviews of Ballard's work (New York Times) |
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Ruddick, Nicholas Review of Luckhurst's The Angle Between Two Walls (Science Fiction Studies #73: Volume 24, Part 3, November, 1997) |
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Rugoff, Ralph Review of Super-Cannes (LA Weekly) |
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Wagar, W. Warren (SUNY Binghamton) Review of Stephenson's Out of the Night and Into the Dream (Science Fiction Studies #57: Volume 19, Part 2, July 1992 (scroll to middle of page) |
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Wolfe, Gary K. (Roosevelt University) Review of Pringle's J. G. Ballard: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Science Fiction Studies #35: Volume 12, Part 1, March, 1985 (middle of page)) |
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Julian Barnes |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Fictionalizing the Factual: Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" (1999) |
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Julian Barnes Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Julian Barnes Web (Ryan Roberts, Knox C.) |
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Anita Brookner |
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Anne Marie Van Amelsvoort, U. of Winnipeg), "A Testimony of Voice" (essay on Brookner's Hotel du Lac) |
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Anna Ericson, "Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon" |
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A. S. Byatt |
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A. S. Byatt Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Salon Interview |
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David Calvert "The Bookfinder" (story on the Midnight Graffiti e-zine) |
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Angela Carter |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus" (1998) |
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Caryl Churchill |
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Scarlett Bowen (U. Texas, Austin), "Caryl Churchill: Post-Modern Dramatist" |
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Ted Hughes |
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"The Song" (Bel Canto) |
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Ted Hughes Pages (Claas Kazzer) |
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"Wind" and "Thistles" (Steve Spanoudis) |
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
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Kazuo Ishiguro Page (George P. Landow) |
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Criticism |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Figuring the Real" Ishiguro's When We Were Orphas" (2001) |
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Jane Gardam Page (George P. Landow / Postcolonial Web) |
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Jon Silkin Page (includes bibliography) (David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth U.) |
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Philip Larkin |
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"Days" (Gareth McCaughan) |
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"Home is So Sad" (Gareth McCaughan) |
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The Philip Larkin Society |
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"This Be The Verse" |
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"Toads Revisited" (Gareth McCaughan) |
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"Vers de Societe" |
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Doris Lessing |
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Jason Castellucci , "The Confinement of Marriage in the Short Fiction of Doris Lessing and Edith Warton" |
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Doris Lessing: A Retrospective (bio and well-organized, detailed, annotated hypertext bibliography) (Jan Hanford) |
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Interview from The Edmonton Journal |
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Margaret O'Beirne's Page |
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Penelope Lively Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Salman Rushdie |
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Banned Books - Salman Rushdie (with a chronology of Satanic Verses and an audio track) |
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Criticism |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Demonizing Discourse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" (1998) |
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Anthony R. Guneratne, "The Virtual Spaces of Postcoloniality: Rushdie, Ondaatje, Naipaul, Bakhtin and the Others" (1997) |
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M. Brent Sleeper (Carleton C.), "Satanic Verses and Last Temptations: Modern Parables of Sacredness & Profanity" |
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Interviews |
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Salon Features: Salman Rushdie (interview with pictures) |
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The Moor's Last Sigh (promotional site for the novel that includes excerpts, excerpts from Rushdie's previous work, a forum, a bio, and other info; requires graphical browser) (Random House, Inc.) |
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Salman Rushdie Page (George P. Landow, Postcolonial Web) |
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Salman Rushdie Page (very extensive page, with annotated bibliography and links to numerous related web resources) |
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Salman Rushdie Page (Bohemian Ink) |
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Statement by the Rushdie Defense Committee (Paul Auster and Don DeLillo) |
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Seamus Heaney |
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Will Self |
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Criticism |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "The Sweet Smell of Excess: Will Self, Bataille and Transgression" (1999) |
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Zadie Smith |
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Kathleen O'Grady (Concordia U.), "White Teeth: A Conversation with Author Zadie Smith" (2002) (Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal) |
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Graham Swift |
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George P. Landow (Brown U.), |
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Graham Swift Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Timothy Mo Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Fay Weldon |
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Anna Ericson, "Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon" |
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Jeanette Winterson Site (Anna Troberg) |
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The Unofficial Jeanette Winterson Page (Alexander Evans) |
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Criticism |
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Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Bonded by Language: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body" (2000) |
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Course Syllabi |
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Homepage |
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Criticism (for specific criticism, see under individual authors) |
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Chris MacNeil, "The Paradox of Liberalism versus Illiberalism: The British Middle Class Portrayed in 1980s Popular Culture" (1994) (Undercurrent) |
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John Unsworth (U. Virginia) |
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"The Book Market II" (1991) (article from Columbia History of the American Novel) |
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"Orchestrating Reception: The Hierarchy of Readers in Post-modern American Fiction" (1990) |
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Journals (Contemporary British & American Literature) |
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Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (U.S. "New South" literature and culture) |
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IO Magazine: The Digital Magazine of Literary Culture |
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Literature Listservs & Newsgroups (Contemporary British & American) |
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20th-Century Listservs (from UPenn listserv index) (also see TILE.NET under General English Literature Resources above) |
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Conferences (Contemporary British & American Literature) |
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Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.) |
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(conference) Don DeLillo: "At the Edges of Perception" (March 25-26, 1998, Rutgers U.) |
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