Monna Giovanna Vs The Wife Of Bath

Monna Giovanna and The Wife of Bath have some common characteristics and some differing characteristics. This essay highlights some of their characteristics as examples of medieval woman.

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Kingsley Amis

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Writing from the Subconscious

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams. ~ Danzae Pace Image © G & A Scholiers
Kids of Color and the New American Whitewashing

"Because I so rarely saw black characters in books when I was a child, I learned to relate to protagonists who didnt look like me -- but that doesnt mean I couldnt identify with their struggles, triumphs, etc. It...
Putting Ontario's literary history on the map

The province's literary history will be celebrated in a new project called Ontario: Read It Here, an initiative organizers promise will "mark the places where Ontario’s real and imagined landscapes meet." Over the next two years, Ontario: Read It Here will install eight permanent exhibits of literature on the exact geographic sites where literary scenes take place. A sophisticated online mapping project, including travelogues and reading lists, will enhance the installations, driving Ontario book lovers and tourists from all over to visit the installations at cities and towns...
Writing is Observing

Writers are observers. They can observe in two different ways: passive observing and active observing. Both are useful at different times in a writer's day or week. Each can produce valuable ideas for writing.
Monday Morning Newslets

Cover for Larsson book took about 45 more tries than BP plug, but kills 95% fewer seabirds FSG pulls back curtain the entire literary process, finds small man working levers Billy Collins is sure something other than Billy Collins is ruining poetry Singapore arrests UK author for writing book about Singapore Man mistakes books in library for urinal cakes, no word on which titles Disgraced historian Orlando Figes settles, has tail permanently stitched between legs NEA’s Big Read evolves, through the magic of economic Darwinism, into NEA’s Not-So-Big Read A hand up for new comics...