A new biopic about Emily Dickinson promises to fill in the blanks of her life, somewhat literally. Indie filmmaker Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights With Emily, starring Molly Shannon as the titular Emily,… Read more »

In Rome, a thirty-five-year-old man who was convicted of paying an underage girl for sex has been ordered to buy thirty feminist books… for the girl to read. Rachael Pells reports… Read more »

It’s Tuesday again, and that means it’s time for another installment of Terrible Trump Poems, a self-explanatory series of exuberantly horrendous writing guaranteed to break the air conditioner of your soul.… Read more »

The open access Emily Dickinson Archive went live on Wednesday, with high-resolution photos of all the author’s letters, autograph manuscripts, and envelope scribbles. But it arrives with heated controversy between… Read more »

On May 27, Heather Christle posted a poem on her Tumblr. The poem was Christle’s own; called “1998” and picked from the collection The Trees the Trees (Octopus Books, 2011),… Read more »

The folks over at Buzzfeed are always good for a fun photo set, and on Friday they posted one that will appeal to book nerds and street art enthusiasts alike.… Read more »

In order to show off its collaborative capabilities, Google Documents has created a demonstration where you can collaborate with famous (and long-dead) authors on a story. It’s actually a pretty… Read more »

Some people are phlegmatic about this, but I am not phlegmatic about this. The New York Times even buries the news behind a comment about Pynchon photos, but Pynchon photos… 1 / Read more »

The website Apartment Therapy has posted a slideshow of fifteen writers’ bedrooms, many of which are an interesting reflection of the authors’ works and personalities. Victor Hugo’s apartment on Paris’… Read more »