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JOURNALS
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CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS
- Academy of American
Poets
- Birthdays of the Month of Contemporary
Authors (About.com)
- Bohemian Ink: Guide to
Writers of Coffee, Angst, & Experimentation (very large, well-organized
site covering both the historical canon and modern / contemporary authors)
(Christopher D. Ritter)
- Contemporary Literature Archives:
- Modern Boheme
("present day bohemian writers paving furture experimental paths")
- Global Bohemian
Authors
- Booker Prize Author
List (Booker Prize winning and shortlisted authors, with links to pages
for each author containing a bio, bibliography, and other information) (Bradley
C. Shoop, U. Tennessee, Chattanooga) | Winning
and Shortlisted Works by Year
- British Literary Prizes
(Merritt Moseley)
- Brightleaf: A Southern Review
of Books (U.S. "New South" literature and culture)
- Contemporary American Poetry
Archive ("electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes
of [North American] poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.
The books are stored as individual text-only files") (Wendy Battin)
- Contemporary
Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English (extensive, well-organized
site) (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Selected Links:
- Authors
- Themes
- Bibliography
- Electronic Poetry Center (Poetics
Program, State U. of New York at Buffalo)
- Internet Poetry
Archive (selected poetry and biographies of featured contemporary poets)
- Michigan State University Celebrity
Lecture Series (pictures, voice samples, brief info, and bibliographies
for major contemporary literary authors writing in English--e.g., Angelou,
Atwood, Doctorow, Heller, Mailer, Oates, Roth, Sontag, Walcott)
- About.com: Authors Page
- On-Line Literary
Resources: Twentieth-Century (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
- Poets in Person (audio
files of poets reading, plus brief info about the poets) (Modern Poetry Assoc.
& American Library Assoc.)
- Twentieth-Century
Poetry in English (large page of annotated links to poetry resources)
(Michael Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe U., Japan)
- The Write Stuff -- Interviews
with Contemporary Authors (altX)
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- Peter Ackroyd
- Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Peter
Ackroyd, Postmodernist Play and Chatterton" (1992)
- Martin Amis
- Martin
Amis Page (Bohemian Ink)
- The Martin Amis Web
(James Diedrick, Albion C.)
- Martin Amis
Page (Bradley Shoop and Alice O'Dea)
- Interviews
- Criticism
- J.G. Ballard
- J.G.
Ballard Page (Craig Sauer, Simon's Rock C.)
- J.G.
Ballard (bibliography) (Alpha Ralpha Boulevard)
- The Electronic Labyrinth:
J.G. Ballard
- "What I Believe"
- Lukas Barr, "Don't
Crash Psychosis, Euthanasia, Apocalypse and Other Fun Ideas: An Interview
with J.G. Ballard" (1995) (KGB Media, Inc.)
- Crash Movie (Official Site)
(Fine Line Features)
- Julian Barnes
- Julian Barnes Page
(Bohemian Ink)
- Julian Barnes Web (Ryan Roberts,
Knox C.)
- Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Fictionalizing
the Factual: Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters"
(1999)
- Anita Brookner
- Anna Ericson, "Love
and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon"
- Anne Marie Van Amelsvoort, U. of Winnipeg), "A
Testimony of Voice" (essay on Brookner's Hotel du Lac)
- A. S. Byatt
- A.
S. Byatt Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Salon
Interview
- Angela Carter
- Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Tall
Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus" (1998)
- Caryl Churchill
- Scarlett Bowen (U. Texas, Austin), "Caryl
Churchill: Post-Modern Dramatist" | About
Caryl Churchill
- Jane
Gardam Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Seamus
Heaney
- Ted Hughes
- Ted Hughes Pages
(Claas Kazzer)
- "The
Song" (Bel Canto)
- "Wind"
and "Thistles" (Steve Spanoudis)
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Kazuo
Ishiguro Page (George P. Landow)
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Page (Bradley Shoop and Alice O'Dea)
- Philip Larkin
- "This
Be The Verse"
- "Vers
de Societe"
- "Days"
(Gareth McCaughan)
- "Home is
So Sad" (Gareth McCaughan)
- "Toads Revisited"
(Gareth McCaughan)
- The Philip Larkin Society
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing: A Retrospective
(bio and well-organized, detailed, annotated hypertext bibliography) (Jan
Hanford)
- Interview
from The Edmonton Journal
- Jason Castellucci , "The
Confinement of Marriage in the Short Fiction of Doris Lessing and Edith
Warton"
- Penelope
Lively Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Timothy
Mo Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Margaret O'Beirne's
Page
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie Page
(very extensive page, with annotated bibliography and links to numerous
related web resources)
- Salman Rushdie
Page (Bohemian Ink)
- Salman
Rushdie Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Banned Books - Salman
Rushdie (with a chronology of Satanic Verses and an audio track)
- The Moor's Last
Sigh (promotional site for the novel that includes excerpts, excerpts
from Rushdie's previous work, a forum, a bio, and other info; requires
graphical browser) (Random House, Inc.)
- Statement
by the Rushdie Defense Committee (Paul Auster and Don DeLillo)
- Interviews
- Criticism
- Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Demonizing
Discourse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" (1998)
- Anthony R. Guneratne, "The
Virtual Spaces of Postcoloniality: Rushdie, Ondaatje, Naipaul, Bakhtin
and the Others" (1997)
- Jenny Sharpe (UCLA), "The
Limits of What Is Possible: Reimagining Sharam in Salman Rushdie's
Shame" (1997) (Jouvert)
- M. Brent Sleeper (Carleton C.), "Satanic
Verses and Last Temptations: Modern Parables of Sacredness & Profanity"
- C J. S. Wallia (IndiaStar), "The
Rushdie Phenomenon: A Second Look" IndiaStar)
- Jon Silkin Page
(includes bibliography) (David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth U.)
- Graham Swift
- Graham
Swift Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- George
P. Landow (Brown U.), "History,
His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland "
- Fay Weldon
- Anna Ericson, "Love
and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon"
- Jeanette Winterson
- Jeanette Winterson Site
(Anna Troberg)
- The Unofficial
Jeanette Winterson Page (Alexander Evans)
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- General Contemporary American Resources
- American
Literature on the Web: Since 1945 (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki C. of
Foreign Languages, Japan)
- Jewish American
Literature Research Homepage (bibliographies of primary and secondary
works on major contemporary authors and filmmakers) (Derek Royal, Purdue
U.)
- KYLT:
A Site Devoted to Kentucky Writers (English Dept., Eastern Kentucky
U.)
- Multicultural
U.S. Fiction Web: Concepts, Definitions, History, Reading Narrative, Websites
(pedagogically-oriented introduction to the concept, history, documents,
and fiction of multiculturalism; includes links and study guides) (Richard
Pearce, Wheaton C.)
- SouthWatch ("selected
resources, essays, and reviews of [U.S.] Southern literature") (Robert
Sterling Gingher)
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Abbey
(Abbey's Web)
- Kathy Acker
- General Resources
- Kathy Acker Page
(Trevor Dodge)
- Kathy Acker
Page| Kathy
Acker Biograph (Mark/Space)
- Kathy Acker Page
(Bohemian Ink)
- Kathy Acker
Page (Henry W. Targowski)
- Currently Available
Books by Kathy Acker (Booksmith)
- Writings & Recordings
- Algeria
(Trevor Dodge)
- Blood and Guts
in High School (excerpt) (Trevor Dodge)
- Empire of the
Senseless (excerpts) (Trevor Dodge)
- "The Gift of
Disease" (1996) ("I am going to tell this story as I
know it. Even now, it is strange to me. I have no idea why I am telling
it. I have never been sentimental. Perhaps just to say that it happened.
In April of this year, 1996, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. . . .")
(Trevor Dodge)
- "The
Language of the Body" (CTheory)
- Mekons
(sound-file excerpt from Acker's record) (Trevor Dodge)
- Politics
(excerpt) (Trevor Dodge)
- Pussy, King of
the Pirates (excerpts and reviews) (Trevor Dodge)
- A Reading List in
Support of the French Novel Form, le recit (Trevor Dodge)
- Speech
for the Artist in Society Conference, Chicago, Oct.1994 (Trevor
Dodge)
- Interviews
- "Kathy
Acker in Conversation with Angela McRobbie" (recording that
must be ordered; "Post-structuralist and postmodern writing -
influence of William Burroughs - the cut up method - human body as
source of inspiration and focus of anxiety - 70s American punk culture")
- Trevor Dodge, "I
Lost My Soul in San Francisco: An Interview / Journal Entry Starring
Kathy Acker, Portland, and Pussy" (1996) (Flirtational)
- Literary Witches Interview: "Consorting
with Hecate"
- Rosie X, "Pussy
and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance" (interview) (geekgirl)
- R.U. Sirius, "Kathy
Acker: Where Does She Get Off?" (interview) (io magazine)
- Criticism
- Daniel Punday (Purdue Un. Calumet), "Theories
of Materiality and Location: Moving Through Kathy Acker's Empire
of the Senseless" (1998)(Genders)
- Eric Weitzel (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Kathy
Acker's Great Expectations: Plagiarism, the Sick, and the Dead
" (1997) (Thresholds)
- Sherman Alexie, "At
Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" (poem) (Karen Strom)
- Paula Gunn Allen
- A. R. Ammons
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
Page (Scott Williams)
- Maya Angelou
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Maya Angelou
Explains "signifying" (audio file)
- John Ashbery
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi
Jones) Page (Michael Borshuk)
- Amiri Baraka, "Minton's"
(1962) (Michael Borshuk)
- Beats (see also individual authors on this page and
on Modern English Literature page)
- Dodie Bellamy
- Hysteria Conversion
(Dodie Bellamy Page) (Earl Jackson, Jr., U. California, Santa Cruz)
- Charles Bernstein (State U. of New York, Buffalo)
- Charles Bernstein
(Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- "Pound
& Man at Yale" (e-mail messages to the POETICS list)
- "Provisional
Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation" (1995)
(essay)
- Review
of Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern
Art, 1909-1923 (1994) (Project Muse, Johns Hopkins U. Press)
- "The
Second War and Postmodern Memory" (1991) (poem/prose) (Postmodern
Culture)
- "Warning
Poetry Area: Publics Under Construction" (1996) (essay)
- "I
Don't Take Voice Mail"
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Paul Bowles
- A Paul Bowles Page
(Peter Murray)
- Paul
Bowles Page at Literary Kicks
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski
Page (Bohemian Ink)
- Charles Bukowski
Page
- buk's page (bio and info about
Charles Bukowski)
- Charles Bukowski:
An Introduction to Bukowski, His Works, and Critical Texts (Damon
Sauve / Oyster Boy Review)
- John Cage (Electronic
Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- Truman Capote Page
(Bohemian Ink)
- Raymond Carver
- Raymond Carver Page (Phil Carson)
- Carver Web (Raymond
Carver page) (Mike Welker)
- Lucille Clifton, Selected
Poems
- Gregory
Corso
- Robert Creeley
- Robert Creeley
(Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- Robert
Creeley Page (Andrew L. Graham (Keele U.)
- Don DeLillo
- Don DeLillo's
America (Curt Gardner)
- Don
Delillo Web Site(English Dept., U. British Columbia)
- (conference) Don
DeLillo: "At the Edges of Perception" (March 25-26, 1998, Rutgers
U.)
- E. L. Doctorow
(lectures series announcement, with selected bibliography, audio, and photo)
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Rita Dove
- Johanna Drucker
- The
History of the/my Wor(l)d (Granary Books)
- "Offset
Printing as a Creative Medium"
- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Virginia), Lines
for a Virtual T/y/o/pography (in-progress hypertext and VRML dissertation
being written "real-time" on the net; concerns the work of textuality
theorist/artist Johanna Drucker)
- Stanley Elkin Research
Page (bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Derek Royal, Purdue
U.)
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence, Interview
with Bret Easton Ellis (1994) (The Write Stuff)
- Anita
Endrezze Page (Karen Strom, U. Mass.)
- Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
- William Gass
- Criticism
- William Gibson (also see Gibson in Sci-Fi
section of Science, Technology, & Culture page)
- "Agrippa
(A Book of the Dead)" (text of the limited-edition, read-once/self-destroying,
art-book poem)
- Allen Ginsberg (on Modern Literature page)
- Grateful Dead Lyrics, Annotated
(site includes critical apparatus and essays) (David Dodd, Library, U. Colorado
at Colorado Springs)
- Joy Harjo (Karen Strom)
- John Hawkes
- Criticism
- Joseph Heller
- Joseph Heller Page
(Bohemian Ink)
- Joseph Heller
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Susan Howe (Electronic
Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- Galway Kinnell
- "The Correspondence
School Instructors Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students" (Mary
Anne Mohanraj)
- Jerzy Kosinski
- The
Painted Bird (brief excerpt) (Paul Tucker, U. California, San
Diego)
- (interview) William Gallo, "Jerzy
Kosinski: Writing by Chance and Necessity" (1977) (Joshua Berlow
/ Rocky Mountain News)
- Maxine Kumin
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Audre Lorde
- Selected Poetry
(Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Norman Mailer
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Rigoberta Menchu
- James Merrill
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- W. S. Merwin
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Michael Mollo, A
Purgatory of Semiotics (poetry)
- N. Scott Momaday
- Web Page
of Toni Morrison's Beloved (English 316K, U. Texas, Austin)
- Marsha Norman
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Sharon Olds
- Sharon Olds
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Modernist
Conversations: Sharon Olds and Countee Cullen (juxtaposes poems by
the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship) (Cherie Bosarge,
Laura Venegas)
- Charles Olson
(Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- Cynthia Ozick Research
Page (bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Derek Royal)
- Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U.)
- Marjorie Perloff
(Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- "Something
Is Happening, Mr. Jones" (Electronic Book Review)
- Robert Pinsky, History
of My Heart
- Thomas Pynchon
- General Resources
- Spermatikos
Logos (The Libyrinth)
- Thomas Pynchon Page (Tom
Ware)
- San Narciso College Thomas
Pynchon Page
- Archive
of PYNCHON-L mailing list for 1992-93
- Writings
- Online
Pynchon Papers ("Although Pynchon is best known for his novels,
he has also penned a copious amount of essays, articles, cover blurbs,
and liner notes; many of which have found their way onto the Web.
This page contains some of these writings . . . ")
(Spermatikos Logos)
- "Is
it O.K. to Be a Luddite?" (1984) (New York Times Book
Review / Spermatikos Logos)
- Criticism
- Carter
Revard Page (Karen Strom, U. Mass.)
- Anne Rice's Vampire
Chronicles Page
- Adrienne Rich
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Tom Robbins
- Philip Roth
- Philip Roth Research
Page (bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Derek Royal)
- Philip Roth
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Roth's
Counterlife: Destabilizing The Facts" (1993)
- J.D. Salinger
- Bananafish Home: J.D.
Salinger Page (collaboratively-produced page) (Steven Foskett)
- J.D. Salinger
Page (Bohemian Ink)
- Anne Sexton
- Anne Sexton Home Page
(Ari Frankel)
- Anne Sexton Archive
- Modernist
Conversations: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Two Confessional Poets
(juxtaposes poems by the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship)
(Lori Jendusa)
- "My
Friend, My Friend" (Lori Jendusa)
- Ntozake
Shange (Henry Holt & Co., Inc.)
- Karl Shapiro
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- Ron Silliman
(Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
- Gary Snyder
- Susan Sontag
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Gary Soto (audio
files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
- The Man Behind Maus: Art Spiegelman
in his Own Words (with Chris Goffard)
- Anniina's Amy Tan
Page (Anniina Jokinen)
- John Updike
- Dwight Garner, Interview:
John Updike (Salon)
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt
Vonnegut Home Page (Kevin A. Boon)
- The
Unofficial Kurt Vonnegut Page (Brian Briscott)
- Kurt Vonnegut
(Michigan State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Alice Walker
- Anniina's Alice
Walker Page (Anniina Jokinen)
- "I Said
to Poetry" (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Selected
Bibliography of The Color Purple (Louisiana C.)
- Eudora Welty
- Eudora Welty
on the Internet (Center for the Study of Southern Culture, U. Mississippi
/ Henry P. Mills)
- Tom Wolfe (Michigan
State U. Celebrity Lecture Series)
- Charles Wright
(audio files plus brief info) (Poets in Person)
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