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Literary Links

General Literature Resources: Books on-line | Indices | Academic/Professional | Reference | Magazines | Cartoons

• Books on-line
  • Bartleby.com
  • Electronic Literature Directory
  • Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Representative Poetry On-Line (Univ. of Toronto)
  • The Internet Public Library's Online Texts Collection
  • John Mark Ockerbloom's On-Line Books Page
• Indices (pages that offer an index of resources)
  • Bedford Links to Resources in Literature (Bedford Books)
  • Book Industry Study Group Inc.
  • BookSpot ("The best of book reviews, book stores, reading lists and more")
  • Bookwire
  • Michael Lee Groves' Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
  • LibrarySpot ("The best of libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more")
  • Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle Home Page (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
  • New York Times' Featured Authors (you have to register to use the site, but it's free)
  • New York Times' Writers on Writing
  • Pilot-Search.com: A Literary Search Engine
  • Powell's Books: Author Interviews
  • PopCultures.com
  • Yahoo's Literature Pages
• Academic / Professional
  • AAUP (American Association of University Professors)
  • American Literary History (journal, published by Oxford UP)
  • American Studies Association
  • Authors Guild
  • Caveat Lector ("Camera Obscura's meta-index of academic and scholarly resources")
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Electronic Literature Organization
  • The English Server (a.k.a. eserver.org. Carneige Mellon's great collection of resources in Arts & Humanities)
  • Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
  • The Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Site
  • Lingua Franca (has folded, but the website is still there...)
  • Literary Prizes and Awards (at Canterbury Public Library, Christchurch, New Zealand)
  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
  • Modern Fiction Studies (journal, published by Johns Hopkins UP)
  • Octavo.com ("dedicated to making the history and beauty of rare original works available to libraries and their patrons")
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association
  • Rare Book School (at the University of Virginia)
  • San Diego State University's Department of English and Comparative Literature (Maintained by Professor Bill Nericcio, this is perhaps the most hip department homepage I've ever seen.)
  • UPenn's Calls for Papers site
  • U.S. Universities, by State (U-Texas at Austin's directory of 4-year colleges and universities on the web)
  • The Vocabula Review
  • Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
• Reference: Grammar and Style | Thesauri | Dictionaries
  • Grammar and Style
    • Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (U Chicago P)
    • Chicago Style by Diana Hacker (Bedford-St. Martin's P)
    • The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)
    • Random House on Sensitive Language: How to Avoid Insensitive Language | The Offensiveness Quotient
    • Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
    • MLA's Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources
  • Thesauri
    • Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Thesaurus
    • Thesuarus.com (Roget's Thesaurus on-line)
  • Dictionaries
    • Dictionary.com
    • Oxford English Dictionary (available to subscribers only)
    • Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary
    • Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
    • YourDictionary.com
    • The Mavens' Word of the Day (Random House)
• Magazines
  • The Atlantic
  • Arts & Letters Daily
  • The Believer
  • BOOK Magazine
  • Bookwire
  • Electronic Literature Organization's links to Electronic Literary Journals
  • Exquisite Corpse
  • Granta
  • Harper's Magazine
  • Huge Magazine ("The Internet's Superchunky Arts and Leisure Magazine")
  • McSweeney's (Note: this is the official site, at McSweeneys.net. In April 2000, there was also a parody [?] McSweeney's site at McSweeneys.com. It is not clear whether this parody -- if it was one -- was created by Dave Eggers or the Massachusetts McSweeneys, who own the domain McSweeneys.com)
  • My Reviews (most were published in Charleston's Post and Courier)
  • The New York Review of Books
  • New York Times Book Review (you have to register, but it's free)
  • The New Yorker
    • Gladwell.com, Malcolm Gladwell's website: includes his New Yorker articles.
    • RebeccaMead.com, Rebecca Mead's website: includes her New Yorker articles.
  • The Paris Review
  • Poetry Daily (featuring "a new poem every day")
  • Poets and Writers Magazine
  • Ruminator Review (formerly Hungry Mind Review)
  • Verbatim: The Language Quarterly
  • The Village Voice
  • The Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor's "daily program of poetry and history")
• Cartoons & Comics (links on the "Visual Arts" page)

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Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2005.