Three Things Make a “Post”

Let’s start with the delightful “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. Along with the proliferation of apostrophes where no apostrophe needs to be, we see “quotation marks” all over the place. Someone is keeping track and commenting dryly on them. I find this one fascinating: The Book Depository Live. Watch in real time as people all [...]

Literary Links for Women’s Lit

A series of articles relating to our recent reading of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”: This article directly references Eliot in her review of “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” This is the one I read out in class, talking about a new line of bad “feminist” fiction. This is the very amusing discussion of Twilight that [...]

Aardman does Shakespeare

Brilliantly, of course. How many plays can you identify?

“engrossing collection of letters”

Camosun’s own Jim Sexton has recently published a collection of letters by Aldous Huxley. Here is one review, from the International Herald Tribune

Eco (Umberto, that is) on Mac vs Dos

This will probably sweep the internets now that Stephen Fry has posted about it on his blog, but never mind. It deserves to sweep. And my link is to a fuller version of Eco’s essay than the one referenced by Stephen Fry. Here’s a taste: The fact is that the world is divided between users [...]

Jane Austen’s World

In keeping with the current “Jane” trend, here is a lovely blog on all things Austen. Not only are the main entries fascinating in and of themselves – interviews with people connected with recent movies, explorations of daily life, in depth treatment of all kinds of fascinating topics – but if you explore the additional [...]

BBC Writersroom

Relatively new to the blogosphere, but with a lot of potential, is the BBC Writersroom, a group blog with contributions by writers of BBC drama. It gives some great insights for those interested in writing for radio or television.