Marc Ecko Considered MacBeth Adaptation (1up.com)

With a video game adaptation of Dante’s Inferno due next year, it seems as if any and all classic literature is fair game. Take Shakespeare for instance, which was nearly re-imagined by entrepreneur Marc Ecko

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Readable Classics Rewrites Great Literature — Publishes Jane Eyre (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Igniting controversy among literary purists, Readable Classics gently edits great literature to make it less frustrating. Skeptics may visit www.ReadableClassics.com to read sample chapters of Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, and Moby-Dick.

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Mexican writer wins 2009 Miguel de Cervantes Prize (People’s Daily)

Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco won on Monday the 2009 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest literature award granted for writing in Spanish. The prize, which amounts to 188,000 U.S. dollars, is granted annually by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to honor the lifetime achievement of a Spanish language writer

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Mexican writer wins 2009 Miguel de Cervantes Prize (People’s Daily)

Longwood professor studies the culture of NASCAR (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

John D. Miller teaches early-American literature at Longwood University, but lately he has lectured on a more contemporary theme: NASCAR and globalization. A fan himself, Miller says the lure of NASCAR is not so much the cars and the race as the spin they bring to an archetypal American narrative

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Bridge (Washington Post)

Jeff Rubens, whose editorship of “The Bridge World” magazine (www.bridgeworld.com) spans 43 years, has produced a book that will significantly impact the literature. A player must often judge the odds of success of different plays.

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Y11 AQA Poetry Literature Revision Pictures FD (Times Education Supplement)

Use these pictures as a revision aid.

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Y11 AQA Poetry Literature Revision Pictures FD (Times Education Supplement)

First-time novelist Evie Wyld wins major literature award (Stuff)

London bookseller and first-time novelist Evie Wyld has beated top literary award winners Aravind Adiga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie among others to land the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

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Boiled egg metaphor scoops bad sex in literature award (Stuff)

Jonathan Littell, who won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for The Kindly Ones, has picked up another prize for the same work - the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

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RECENT ITEMS» (Filter Magazine)

Stones Throw multi-instrumentalist and purveyor of fresh beats, James Pants , is set to release his sophomore record.

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RECENT ITEMS» (Filter Magazine)

Royal Society Publishes Rare Scientific Studies Online (redOrbit)

The Royal Society said on Monday that historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other groundbreaking scientists would be published online for the first time.As part of celebrations to mark its 350th anniversary, the world’s oldest scientific institution will release famous literature on the web that it has published in its journals over the centuries.Among the important …

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