Writing and Literature

Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts

Folger Shakespeare Library announces the release of its new Digital Texts, a free, online resource that offers twelve of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from Folger Editions. Try Folger Digital Texts. From the Folger press release: Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited, accurate texts—drawn from the Folger Editions, the leading Shakespeare texts

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South Asian Women’s Creative Collective’s literary festival

November 30-December 1, 2012 in New York City. Storytelling and creative processes have undergone a revolution in the digital age. We dip in and out of different forms of media, borrow from each other every day, and create completely new forms of communication and expression. Inspired by these shifts, SAWCC

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NYS Poet and Author Announced

Marie Howe to serve as the 10th New York State Poet, Alison Lurie as the 10th New York State Author. Marie Howe succeeds Jean Valentine as NYS Poet and joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Billy Collins, John Ashbery, Sharon Olds, Jane

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Reader’s Advisory

Stony Brook University Libraries offers a helpful tool to assist you in researching a number of popular books and films found in our collection. Throughout the Main Stacks, patrons may find small signs posted on random aisles providing a title that can be located in that section.  Have you recently been assigned an essay on

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Latino Writing Collections

Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made available in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month by Alexander Street

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News from Project MUSE

Project MUSE introduces linked subject headings (reproduced from Project MUSE’s recent email announcement) Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in our recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature – “clickable” subject headings for each article, allowing fast and easy connections to related content in Project

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Fiction Connection – a Readers’ Advisory Service

BooksInPrint.com now includes a reader’s advisory service called Fiction Connection. Readers can use Fiction Connection to find book suggestions based on books they have already read, authors they like, or topics of interest. Biographies and biographical novels are also included in Fiction Connection. Access to Fiction Connection is available through

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