Oscar Wilde always imposed. Meeting him in 1892, the French writer Jules Renard reported: “He offers you a cigarette, but selects it himself. He does not walk around a table: he moves the table out of the way … He is enormous, and carries an enormous cane.” The affectations of dress and manner; the extraordinary, magnetic talk; the flourished…

New Delhi: The 2024 edition of the New Delhi World Book Fair offers a unique opportunity to explore the richness of literature in various Indian languages.With the theme ‘Multilingual India: A Living Tradition,’ this nine-day event will kick off on Feb 10.The theme pavilion, in hall number five, will host a range of activities, including…

A New Heartbeat for Indigenous Literature: The Rise of Heartdrum Advertisment Cynthia Leitich Smith, an esteemed author from the Muscogee Nation and the creative force behind books such as “Rain Is Not My Indian Name” and “Sisters of the Neversea,” is leading a literary revolution with Heartdrum. This HarperCollins imprint is dedicated to amplifying the…

Before blocked writers could turn to ChatGPT for help, they might have consulted Wycliffe Hill’s 1930s manual, “The Plot Genie.” The genie’s magic was held in a series of numbered lists that, according to Hill, collectively contained every story ever told. Simply spin the cardboard “Plot Robot” wheel (sold separately) and generate “a complete plot…

They have killed skinny jeans and continue to shame millennials for having side partings in their hair. They think using the crying tears emoji to express laughter is embarrassing. But now comes a surprising gen Z plot twist. One habit that those born between 1997 and 2012 are keen to endorse is reading – and…

In a compelling intersection of technology and literature, Five Books, a trusted platform for book recommendations, recently employed ChatGPT to suggest the best reads on Artificial Intelligence. Following this experiment, interviews with several Large Language Models (LLMs) about books on India revealed promising results. Advertisment An Unlikely Collaboration: AI and Literature The LLMs recommended notable…

Aotearoa New Zealand’s literary scene has always punched above its weight, with our Pacific nation producing luminaries like Katherine Mansfield, Keri Hulme, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame, and Witi Ihimaera—not to mention the queen of crime fiction, Ngaio Marsh. Reading fiction set in New Zealand, you can’t help but get a sense of the fortitude and…

$1000 stipends for MPS teachers and librarians available To support more diverse books in classrooms and libraries and integration of diverse books in the curriculum, the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the UWM Center for International Education (CIE) will award $1000 summer stipends to eight Milwaukee Public Schools teachers and…

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Erotic fiction gets a bad reputation, and it’s frankly unfair. Just because a work of literature can be a sexual turn-on does not inherently make it less than. Even “smutty” shouldn’t have such a negative connotation. Don’t let the bad eggs like Fifty Shades of Grey (despite its rampant popularity) keep you from the sumptuous…