From Don Swaim’s radio show, interviews with poets and writers; other readings and files also available. Sponsored by Ohio University.
Direct link to Swaim’s interviews:
http://wiredforbooks.org/swaim/
Direct link to mp3 page:
http://wiredforbooks.org/mp3/
Diane always knows about the best stuff. A guy–Mike Diccicco–is writing a novel on Twitter starting February 5th.
Follow secretlifehamel on Twitter, or catch up at his blog:
Richard Beach of the University of Minnesota together with Deborah Appleman (Carleton College), Susan Hynds (Syracuse), and Jeffrey Wilhelm (Boise State) have put together a website for training student-teachers to teach literature. With pages and links to critical methodologies, practical questions and answers, and genre studies, this site is a real throw-down resource. A fantastic job, well balanced, and up-to-date.
Stumbled over the UNC “Documenting the American South” collections again; I had completely forgotten how great it is. Slave narratives, first-person memoirs, oral history narratives, and most interestingly from a research perspective, 121 compositions written by students of UNC between 1795 and 1868.
Oh, and I stumbled here because they have Charles Chesnutt’s books full text with illustrations and lots lots more (including Grace King!).
J. Peterman, retail catalog-maker extraordinaire, celebrated Mark Twain’s birthday a few days ago by devoting his blog this week to Mark Twain. His blog discussion posts always give great links to interesting information. This week, for instance, we find out that the Twain home/museum again faces foreclosure, that Clint Eastwood is set to play Twain in an upcoming movie, and that someone re-created the Swiss leg of Twain’s “A Tramp Abroad” journey.
(I wish that I could figure out what template he’s using to blog on, but it was probably created just for the site. It looks like Movable Type formatting anyway though and WordPress is my friend.)