10. Patron: If I was feeling particularly existentialist, what book would you recommend for me? 9. Patron: Hi. I’m looking for a book called Bay Wolves. Can you help me find it? Me: Sure, let me look it up for you… Hmmm, sorry we don’t have any books by that name. Do you know the…
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Why We Love the New eNotes Study Guide Pages
eNotes' study guides have a new look! Check out our top 3 reasons why they're new and improved: 1. Quick and easy access to the information you need most 2. Homework Help on the study guide page 3. Find what's trending in every subject But enough gushing from us! Why not check them out for…
A Cheater’s Guide to the Classics
DISCLAIMER: If you are a student assigned to read any of the following classics in school, you should ABSOLUTELY read them all the way through! Not only are they classics for a reason, but that's your job as a student, and as members of the educational community we would be remiss if we didn't point…
Salinger to Be Published Posthumously
The Catcher in the Rye author, who died in 2010, left instructions to publish his unseen works, including new stories featuring his most famous character Holden Caulfield. J. D. Salinger was always a guarded artist. He kept a very small inner circle of only "seven or eight people," says his son Matthew, outside of which nobody…
Rewriting Shakespeare
In yet more news of Shakespearean retellings, Random House is now set to publish a series of the Bard's plays rewritten as prose. The RH imprint Hogarth has commissioned authors Anne Tyler and Jeanette Winterson as the first to release novels in the forthcoming "Hogarth Shakespeare Project." The two will be rewriting The Taming of the…
Can You Guess These Classics by Their Covers?
Here's a fun game for your Friday: try to guess the titles of the famous books behind these ten phantom covers. Scroll down or click-through for the answers. And have a great weekend, wherever you are! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ANSWERS Are you ready?? ... 1. One Flew Over…
At the Intersection of Poetry and Music
Four adaptations of poems set to music: some tender, some bizarre, all personal homages to poems and their masters. Enjoy! "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson Composed by Israeli singer-songwriter Efrat Ben Zur.
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!…
Top Ten Literary Beers
It's Friday! Time to kick back with a summer read, dig your toes into the sand, and crack open one of these beauties. Who said beers couldn't be high-brow? White Whale Ale Yes, it is actually made with pages ripped from the seams of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Le Petit Prince (or The Little Prince) Lament on…