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A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, in Photos
In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.
Read & DiscussJumping on the Slow Reading Bandwagon
School programs and libraries often encourage reading by holding summer programs that offer rewards to top readers. For example, finish 10 books...
Read & DiscussWhy Don't More Writers Buy Books?
A new submission model—wherein writers must buy a book if they want their work to be considered for publication—is shaking up the literary...
Read & DiscussAnne Trubek thinks Farmworkers Dare Americans to "Take Our Jobs" is good.
2 years agoThe Very Long History of Emoticons
I used to be anti-emoticon. For years, I thought of smiley faces as the mark of an immature writer—the kind who punctuates a sentence with seven...
Read & DiscussA Summer Reading Forecast
One can be assured of very few things these days. But I will hazard three certainties for the next three months. Tomatoes will ripen. People will...
Read & DiscussShould We Care About Grammar and Spelling on Twitter?
Many people assume I am a guardian of grammar. The typical plane-ride conversation goes like this: “What do you do?”” “I am an English professor”...
Read & DiscussAnne Trubek thinks Are Teachers Hand-cuffed by Flawed Education... is good.
2 years agoThe Problem of Free Books
How The Fountainhead weaseled its way into the canon. Recently, a plea appeared on my twitter stream: “I'm begging for book money again: We are...
Read & DiscussWhose Words Are These?
There are so many different definitions of plagiarism-and so much written about it-that it can be hard to separate original writing from things...
Read & DiscussThe Art of Forged Signatures
What one forgery scam can tell us about the tradition of author signatures-and where we go from here. This week's column comes from one of...
Read & DiscussDeath of the Author
With J.D. Salinger, how can we separate the author from his writing? And now that he's dead, should we even try? I have written about J.D....
Read & DiscussHaiti: A Reading List
How we can help Haiti move forward, through understanding. By now we all realize that poverty, not just the Richter Scale, contributed to the...
Read & DiscussWomen Writers or Male Sex Scenes: Which Would You Read?
How Kate Roiphe silenced a serious discussion about sexism. We should be past this by now-it's 2010-but it appears the question of sexism amongst...
Read & DiscussThe Decade in Literature
Ten years of literary innovation, fudged memoirs, and digital reading. The Aughts saw the birth of readerly social networking, a flowering of...
Read & DiscussSaving Poetry (and Poetry)
A holiday shout-out to the Tudors, independent magazines, and charitable giving. I have been going through a Tudor phase. It started when I...
Read & DiscussSchoolhouse Rock and Beyond
What we don't know about early America Sometimes I think my conception of Revolutionary America was imprinted on my brain by Schoolhouse Rock,...
Read & DiscussOff to the Poe Houses
Halloween + Literature = Edgar Allan Poe, right? If you would like to get to know the author better this weekend, you have an astounding number...
Read & DiscussThe SAT and Its Discontents
What could we gain by abandoning the test's timed essay? Better writers. "Although most people's goal is to be happy at all times, being...
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