The team behind the film adaptations of the Hunger Games trilogy have chosen their next project, and it’s not another hip YA series. Instead they’re going back to the classics and adapting, what else?, The Odyssey.
A Hunger Games Odyssey
‘I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost.’
Simon & Schuster has posted an excerpt of John Irving’s forthcoming novel In One Person.
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Forrest Gander’s Reading List
Recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander offers a curated poetry reading list that includes C.D. Wright and Arthur Sze.
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Scary Stories with Lorrie Moore
Looking for a way to spice up your short story? Add a ghost. “This is going to sound strange, but what your story really needs is a ghost,” Lorrie Moore said in an interview with The New York Times. She discussed her new professorship at Vanderbilt and her new short story collection, Bark, which, yes, does contain a ghost story.
“so this is the sound of you”
Why not kick off 2012 with former poet laureate W. S. Merwin’s poem, “To the New Year“?
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Literary Paper Dolls
What better way to celebrate pioneering women writers ranging from Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edith Wharton than with a collection of literary paper dolls?
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