Nice decorations for my rental house

Guest post written by Brenna Masterson I think that it’s just so drab when people move into a place and don’t make an effort to decorate it at all. I mean, you can hang things up and take them down if you can’t paint the walls or do any renovating. It truly is amazing what [...]

Video Production, Music Production, and Audio Production – 3 Ways to Make Your Business Stand Out

Sometimes, the best way to grab more attention for your business to break away from tradition, and do something totally creative. With video production, music production, and audio production, you can set your business out from the rest – and it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune to do it! The right video production [...]

Great Christmas Deals at Zappos

Christmas is coming and many retailers have started big sales.This year we had the biggest cyber Monday ever. Cyber Monday is basically the first Monday after Thanksgiving, where e-tailers hold big sales online. However, good deals are still out there, specially at Zappos the online shoe retailer among other things. If you are a man [...]

Graphic Novel Best Sellers

At Art & Literature, graphic novels rarely receive their due. But with shifting definitions of what constitutes literature, I think it’s time that we give graphic novels some notice. Here is the graphic novel best seller list for the week of May 9 (as reported by The New York Times’ Art Beat): Graphic Best Sellers [...]

On the Bookshelf: Angels in America, Parts I and II

Playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America,  said of the differences between playwriting and its (in Kusher’s view) once-removed cousin, screenwriting: “Screenwriting is primarily a narrative art–and I don’t think that’s true of playwriting, which is dialogic and dialectic, and is fundamentally always more about an argument than it is about narrative progression. I [...]

Mary Otis, animated [video]

Watch a sentence from Mary Otis' story in Electric Literature come alive at the hands of an animator.

Jan Brewer's Book Sales Are Up 1.3 Million Percent; 'War Horse' Gets the Spielberg Bump

Today in publishing and literature: The co-chair of the Jaipur Literature Festival explains the decision to cancel Salman Rushdie's video speech, War Horse is a best-seller 30 years in the making, and the high cost of owning a Nook.

Icelandic Literature Awards Announced

Iceland is becoming hipper and more popular as holiday destination. I've got the numbers to prove it. more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of how traditional Icelandic kjötsúpa , clear broth of lamb with root crop, herbs and beans, is made.

Readorama: Tuning into Midwestern literary voices

No one, says Denise Low, has done what she’s done: try to define a Middle Western voice in contemporary literature.

Putin's Scary Russian Canon; Literature's Fanciest and Least Practical Homes

Today in publishing and literature: Amazon Publishing strikes a licensing deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Vladimir Putin wants Russia to have a canon to call its own, and the beautiful, impractical, and gaudy homes of successful authors.