We’re just going to say it: there is nothing unmanly about the novella Includes 42 examples for flouting… Read more »
Pearson DMCA takedown notice shoves 1.5 million blogs offline A copyright dispute over a questionnaire called the Beck Hopelessness Scale caused the Edublogs site and its millions of linked education blogs to go offline for more than an hour. The incident,… Read more »
Crime writer wins gajillion-Euro Planeta Prize Amid all the Booker buzz, a much more lucrative literary prize has gone largely unreported in the English-language press this week. The Planeta Prize awards a staggering €601,000 annually to one… Read more »
The villanelle makes a comeback A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain. This highly structured and rigid form is only about a… Read more »
Emma Thompson’s Peter Rabbit sequel Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s story The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published 110 years ago, and to mark the occasion, Frederick Warne & Co. has put out the first book… Read more »