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Hooked on books: Going literary in letter form is a well-traveled road

Still perched high on the bestseller lists after more than 26 weeks in the top spot, Virginia Evans' "The Correspondent" ...
The Washington Post

This writer perfected an unusual literary form: Amazon reviews

The first signal that something awfully sly is going on with Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” is the book’s jacket. It mimics, down to the typeface, the design of the august Library of ...
The New Yorker

Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-Form

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...
Christian Science Monitor

Seven literary couples form 'Uncommon Arrangements'

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
The New Yorker

Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form

Even committed fans of Henry James’s novels are sometimes ambivalent about “The Princess Casamassima,” in which a young, impoverished aesthete, Hyacinth Robinson, falls in with a group of would-be ...
gulftoday

Poetry deepest literary form in Arab culture: Saudi writer

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Salem Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, and Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Media Council, attended ...