Conservative politician, journalist and author in the United Kingdom, Michael Gove, recently stated “The great tradition of our literature – Dryden, Pope, Swift, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Austen, Dickens and Hardy – should be at the heart of school life. . . . it is every child’s birthright . . .
Every now and then a good book completely passes us by . . . That’s what happened with Paul Harding’s first novel, “Tinkers,” published by the Bellevue Literary Press, a small publisher that had only been in business for a couple of years. Now “Tinkers” has gone and won the Pulitzer Prize!
As we go forward promoting and spreading the word about phati’tude, I’ve already run across the “naysayers,” who “poo-poo” our mandate to promote multicultural literature. . . . But we still need to bring multiculturalism to the next level, that’s why phati’tude’s mission is more important today than ever before.
From cigarette packet-sized classics to Don Quixote on the iPhone, Jonathan Gibbs charts the past and future of compact literature.
Many students attending schools in America will enroll in their freshman year of high school without ever having heard of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. It is likely they will not be able to meaningfully enter into any conversation . . .
Mark Twain, left a worldwide legacy that has continued since his death 100 years ago. As cities across the country are celebrating Twain this year, Twain experts explain how he shaped American literature and culture . . .
We’ve got enough mindless entertainment in the world today. When I read War and Peace, I don’t want to hear an actor reciting Bezukhov’s lines. I want to read them for myself and add my own thoughts . . .
Over 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, primary sources are vanishing; there are now only around 5,000 Holocaust survivors alive in the UK. . . . there’s a sense that writers of the second and third generation are beginning to tire of the Shoah.
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