Links
The following are links to literature pages on the Web.
Book Lovers: This site contains an abundance of links to every imaginable book-related site. Fabulous!
Bookwire: This site also has good links to other sites; more important, it links you to lists of the Nobel, Pulitzer, Pen-Faulkner, and other award winners. And not least, it takes you toThe Boston Review of Books and The Hungry Mind Review, among others.
Nimble Books LLC: This site contains book reviews, articles, author biographies, and also information on book-related Usenet groups.
The Literature Network has links to information and e-texts for a large number of authors. A very good resource.
The Word : This site contains a list of links to other book sites, especially on-line journals and reference sources. A very inclusive list.
Literature.org has full and unadridged e-texts of many American and English classics.
Bartleby.com has links to quotations, e-texts, and information on many writers. Great resource!
The following are links to sites which provide assistance with research, paper writing and documentation.
The Internet Public Library: This site contains all sorts of help on writing research papers, documentation, and information on literature, as well as lots of good links to literature sites.
The University of Wisconsin's Page on Documentation Styles: The name says it all.
The following are links to sites which provide information about some of the writers we're reading.
- The Salon interview with Mona Simpson has some good information.
- Wired for Books has a very interesting interview with Simpson about her discovery that Apple's Steve Jobs is her brother.
- Answers.com has some basic biographical information along with a list of Simpsons's works.
- Bebe Moore Campbell Website includes information about the author's life and ideas,books, and other projects.
- African American Literature Book Club has a biographical sketch of Campbell and transcript of an interview.
- Voices From the Gap has a biographical sketch of Campbell and a bibliography of her works.
- NPR has a page on Campbell, with links to audio files of several interviews, including a couple on 72 Hour Hold.
- Testimony: Bebe Moore Campbell: In this essay, Campbell talks about her own experiences having a loved one with mental illness.
- The Road to Health did an interview with Campbell about 72 Hour Hold. You can read a transcript of the interview and watch the video.
- turnrow has a good interview with Ralph Lombreglia about his work and about book readings.
- Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page contains biographical and other information.
- Interview with Joyce Carol Oates and Bibliography of her Work. You'll need to register to read it, but it's free.
- Academy of Achievement has a good interview with Oates.
- Queer Cultural Center has a page on Allison with lots of good quotes and links to other resources about her work.
- U.C. Davis Writers Series has a profile of Dorothy Allison with some great quotes.
- Raymond Carver has some good links and excerpts.
- The Raymond Carver WebSite has some great links, biographical information, photos, audio clips, and lots more.
- The Tim O'Brien Home Page
- "Plausibility and Denial: Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America"
- Book Reporter has a good interview with Tim O'Brien.
- The New York Times has published a number of reviews and interviews with O'Brien; this page will provide links to all of those.
- The African American Literature Book Club has a page on Wideman with biographical information and a list of his books.
- The Salon Interview with John Edgar Wideman.
- The New York Times has published a number of reviews and interviews with Wideman; this page will provide links to all of those.
- Mostly Fiction.com has a page on Power with biographical information and links to other resources.
- Voices from the Gaps has a great page on Power, with a link to an good interview and a list of her works.
- The Austin Chronicle has a brief biography of Jones, with some good quotes.
- Seattle Weekly's Books Quarterly has a good article on Jones, with lots of good quotes. Warning: lots of profanity here.
- Barbara Kingsolver's Official Website, put together by her publisher, HarperCollins. Lots of good info here.
- The Salon Interview with Kingsolver.
- NewsHour Online; Kingsolver is interviewed by David Gergen.
- Book Page has an interview with Kingsolver about The Poisonwood Bible and other matters.
- The New York Times has published a number of reviews and interviews with Kingsolver; this page will provide links to all of those.
- Salon Magazine has several articles on Frazier, including an interview.
- NewsHour Online; Frazier is interviewed by Elizabeth Farnsworth.
- Frank K's Cold Mountain Page is an assignment put together by Frank Kuok for a junior high school assignment; it's got some pretty interesting stuff on it. Good job, Frank!
- Powell's interview with Micahel Chabon is interesting; he talks alot about his interests, what he reads, and how he writes.
- McSweeney's has a page on Chabon, with good links to reviews, interviews, and other articles.
- NPR has a good page on Chabon, with links to audios of several interviews.
- The Project Museum is Foer's homepage. Click on the subway lines to get to the different pages. Enjoy the ride!
- Identity Theory interview with Robert Birnbaum.
- Everything is Illuminated website contains biographical information and an interview.
- Barnes and Noble's Meet The Writers series has a profile of Foer, along with an audio interview with him. Very interesting.
- Salon.com's review of Everything is Illuminated is not adoring, but it's good.
- The Morning News has an interview of Foer by Robert Birnbaum; lots of good info about his second novel.
- Reviews of Books gives you links to many of the original reviews of Everything is Illuminated. This is a good site to look up reviews of any book.
- Guardian Unlimited Books tells a story of a traumatic event Foer experienced as a child, and how it influenced his second novel. Very interesting.
- Mother Jones's Joshua Shenk interviews Foer about his second novel, which is 9/11-related .
- Sherman Alexie's Website has lots of good information and links, including a calendar of his appearances and links to lots of his essays.
- Modern American Poetry has a page on Alexie with biographical information, interviews, and lots of other good background.
- NPR has a good page on Alexie, with several audio interviews; very interesting!
- Powell's has a good interview with Alexie about Flight.
- Julia Alvarez is Julia Alvarez's website, with lots of excellent information: biographical information, a list of her books, and info about her appearances, among other things.
- Voices From the Gaps has some good biographical information and some good links to other sources on Alvarez.
- Susan Walker, from Emory University, has put up a good page on Julia Alvarez, with biographical information and links to other sites.
"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"--Clyfford Still
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