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The Many Lives of Libraries
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (262+ words) JSTOR Daily The Many Lives of Libraries These stories span centuries and continents, revealing how libraries have shaped culture, politics, and public life. Want to foment a revolution or win a war? Fight for justice, freedom, and civil rights? Make…...
Six Flash Fiction Stories by Contemporary Writers
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (469+ words) Call them short shorts, microfiction, or just flash: these stories are efficient narrative machines. They’ll take only a few minutes of your time, but the best of the genre deliver the gut punch and the memorable characterization of whole novels....
Returning to Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) A literary classic doubles as data, helping scientists trace decades of ecological change in the Gulf of California. In 1940, author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts chartered a fishing boat named the Western Flyer to explore the Gulf of…...
The Book That Became The Iron Giant
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (291+ words) Before it was a cult classic, the Warner Bros. film began as a 1968 children’s novel by Ted Hughes, though the book and movie tell notably different tales. Sometimes connecting the dots between creative industries leads to some intriguing discoveries. For…...