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It's not just what you know, it's how you put it together. But the more you know, the more and more interesting ways you can put things together...

‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Creativity “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

Neil Gaiman Delves Deep Into Norse Myths for New Book Mr. Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology,” due out in February, is an almost novelistic retelling of famous myths about the gods of Asgard.

How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front The Battle of the Somme, a century ago, left its mark on the “Lord of the Rings” author.

What is The Great American Novel? What is The Great American Novel? The LA Times Critics at Large share their selections

Jon Dennis on Twitter “The economy of Raymond Chandler's writing. He doesn't even bother to say "she threw a glass at me".”

Fact, Fiction, and the Books of Madeleine L’Engle The author of “A Wrinkle in Time” believes in the presence of good and evil. She refuses to distinguish between children’s and adult literature.

I don't think you HAVE to be in your 30s to appreciate these. I think BuzzFeed's just appealing to its core readership with the headline. It's an interesting list for the books on it no matter your age.

48 Books You Need To Read In Your 30s Now that you've lived a little, it's time to reflect on what got you here, what's coming next, and how to live a more fulfilling life. In alphabetical order by title.

How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Revived Modern Myth-Telling Stories of the famous writers of Oxford

The Sherlock Christmas special is coming soon..."ish"

Sherlock: A First Look at the Sherlock Special See an exclusive scene from the forthcoming Sherlock Special, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Una Stubbs, coming soon-ish to MASTERPIECE on...

17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying "very few [long] novels earn their length." Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major li...

29 Classic Young Adult Books That Changed The World (And Are Also Great Reads) Instead of just hot must-reads from recent years, this list is comprised of truly life-changing and genre-changing texts.

From NPR's pop culture blogger, Linda Holmes. Writing is for the birds.

Linda Holmes on Twitter “Sometimes, screaming at yourself to write is like screaming at a bird to land on you. You're exhausting yourself AND making it worse.”

Xeni on Twitter “C.S. Lewis fan: "I'd like to visit Narnia." Tolkien fan: "I'd like to live in Middle-Earth." George R.R. Martin fan: "Nope, I'm good."”

E.B. White on How to Write for Children and the Writer’s Responsibility to All Readers "Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down." The loving and attentive reader of child

21 Books To Read Before They Hit The Big Screen In 2015 Looking forward to another year of awesome movie adaptations! In order of release date.

Rowan Williams: why we need fairy tales now more than ever Fairy tales are capable of depicting the hardest challenges we face as human beings.

What Books Do for the Human Soul: The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature "Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves." The question of what reading does for the human soul is an etern

Netflix to adapt Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Netflix has secured the rights to Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events," according to Deadline , with the bestselling series of books for kids to be adapted as a live-action series for the online streaming network.

Bruce Springsteen: By the Book The musician and author of the new picture book “Outlaw Pete” likes reading about cosmology: “I find men and women struggling to answer the deepest questions we can ask freeing.”

8 Movies We Can't Wait To See (Because We Loved The Books) Originally published on Kirkus Do you get that jittery feeling when you learn that a book you love is set to become a movie? How is Hollywood going to ruin the book? Will it be anything like what you imagined while you were reading? We have to rem...

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Syracuse University Honors Program | Calling all conspiracy theorists! Calling all conspiracy theorists! By Blythe On October 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized Photo Credit: Bettemann/CORBIS via Kennedys Riding in Dallas Motorcade – K Street Magazine Tomorrow (10/13) at 2:00 in Bowne 414, Martin J. Kelly, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Hobart and William S…

Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour Over the summer, The American Scholar published two lists of the 100 best American novels from 1770-1985. We've combined the lists and we're asking: which ones have you read? What is missing and what should be included after 1985?

Behind every great novelist… | Maria Konnikova This drawing would make a wonderful accompaniment to the recent Guardian piece on the (false though repeated ad infinitum) relationship between creation and

I'm ready to read adult fiction – where should I start? It can seem daunting, but there's a whole world of books beyond the children's section. Site member Firebird is here with a few commandments for those thinking of taking their first steps...

The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw... Vladimir Nabokov (via elucipher) My philosophy of fan fiction.

Please Stop Right-Click-Thesaurusizing Everything You Write As millions of novice adults the country over concoct to return to their levying institutions of higher learning, a trap awaits them all. They may be counting on an imperative technological advance to “help” them write all those essays they’ll soon be entrusted: MS Word’s thesaurus, harbinger of tot…

Harry Potter, Seriously Children’s literature is literature. Intelligent adults already know this. However, as those of you who study or write or teach children’s literature are well aware, the world is full of alleged grown-ups who insist on spreading the myth that children’s literature is not literature, and (thus) canno…

How to read books in the digital age Several recent articles appearing online have pointed to a couple of burning questions about book reading in this overstuffed era: Why do people buy books ...

Writers At Work Watch the giants work. Then get to work yourself.