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Bites: Best Book Covers, “Bush-League Method acting,” Social Thuggery, and More

On November 30, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Bites: Gentrification Lit, Adam Langer, Dustin Hoffman Loves Libraries, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin host the Oscars, and more

On November 4, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Weekend Bites, The Frightening Edition: Keats Misdiagnosed?, the Penis as Literary Device, ScarJo to Rape Arthur Miller’s Work, Truths in Ghostbusters, and Why M&M’s Might As Well Be Crack

On October 31, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Happy Halloween! In honor of the spooky holiday, Vol.1 has collected some particularly frightening Bites, ranging from the traditionally fun-filled, the absolutely outraging, and the sadly serious.

Lit.
Did medical malpractice lead to the death of John Keats, leaving the poet starving and anguished? Wait, isn’t that what poets are definitively? After losing his own book deal, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford praises Ayn Rand. In a review of Alistair Morgan’s Sleeper’s Wake, The Rumpus expostulates on the penis as literary device, citing memorable protagonists “whose dicks are divining rods for locating [...]
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Does the Nobel Committee Put Politics Before Literature? Should We Care?

On October 17, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Whether or not it's true that her political background is more illuminating than her literary one (I don't think it is), after last year's debacle we should all come to expect from the Nobel committee a fickle attitude toward art for art's sake as well as a literary anti-Americanism. Hey, it's their prize, not ours.
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Bites: Rainbow bookshelves, killed book covers, readers of print bring it in, mock executions, finding Jesus’ head, Atwood’s green tour

On August 22, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

By Willa A. Cmiel
Book Bench explains it correctly when they call organizing your books by color “an exercise that feels dorky and juvenile.” But look, not (really) so! I guess the exposed wooden beams and built-in wall shelves help romanticize the whole nerdy practice.
Killed book jackets from Print. Readers of the printed word are worth wayyy more than you are. The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers: $709 versus $46. (via The Millions) Upon my insistence, my family and I visited the Torture Museum in Amsterdam. [...]
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Bites: Attempt at bad poetry leaves me unfulfilled, Raymond Chandlers LA, up yours Barnes and Noble, Will Sheff helps Norah Jones, and more

On August 21, 2009 By Jason Diamond

By Jason Diamond

Come on city of my birth (that being Chicago), this is the worst poetry you can do? No sonnets about Mike Ditka? Not a single haiku on Hot Dougs? Seriously people, come on!
If I ever needed one quote from The Awl to sum up the love I feel for that website, then I have found it with “If our Congress can be measured on a scale of feces (and it should), Senator Byron Leslie Dorgan is closer to adorable rabbit droppings than, say, the diseased swine diarrhea that is Michele [...]
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The Gospel According to Harry (and Scholars, and Fanatics, and Movie-Goers)

On August 19, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

By Willa A. Cmiel

I would claim to be a part of the original Harry Potter generation. The series starts near Harry’s eleventh birthday, and the first book came out in 1997 when I was eleven years old. Although “too old” for children’s books now (I still read Alice in Wonderland, often), I grew up with Harry. I was with him from the very start. At this point, though, Harry Potter belongs to no generation, as much as he belongs to no one culture or country or group of people. (I suppose, in fact, since I am American [...]
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The Goodness of Art

On August 17, 2009 By Laura Macomber

By Laura Macomber
I recently wrote a 45-page paper discussing the paradox of cultural elitism in post-war, post-fascist societies as discussed by three different works of literature: “Todesfuge” (Death Fugue) by Paul Celan, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, and The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek. Admittedly, the paper was my senior honors thesis in Comparative Literature and I wrote it for no one but myself and a handful of professors. And though I felt deep concern for the subject about which I was writing, my fear was that others didn’t (or if the paper was [...]
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