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In a few pages of carefully crafted thoughts, short story writers can capture a piece of our minds, memories, beliefs, flaws or realities that we ofte ...  View More

Short stories have the power to entertain, inform, and even heal. Interpreting those stories, uncovering the author’s message, is a noble, challeng ...  View More

There is more to literature than novels, plays, and poetry; there are essays. Essays, when well executed, intrigue the reader with a thoughtful perspe ...  View More

Many critics have labeled Powell’s twelve-novel cycle about Britain between the 1920s and the 1970s as one of the great English-language works of the ...  View More

James Baldwin was one of the most important voices of the twentieth century. From the 1950s to the 1980s his novels, essays, plays, poetry, book and f ...  View More

Welcome, poetry lovers! Join us in Poetry for Pleasure, where we will learn more about life and death, love and loss, and memory as we discover and ...  View More

Toni Morrison has been acclaimed as a prodigious talent. Her novels are both gritty and poetic at the same time. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize fo ...  View More

The writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1918–37) were a vibrant group of highly talented black artists who produced a wealth of literature. Unlike much ...  View More

Many people distinguish between “literary” fiction and genres such as romance, detective, and science fiction, often claiming that literary fiction is ...  View More