ONLINE EMILY DICKINSON ARCHIVE—1894 PHOTOGRAPH of TWAIN and TESLA

By MICHELLE HOGMIRE | 10/24/13

10/23/13

“Fiction MFA Application Advice from Elizabeth McCracken,” by Galleycat’s Jason Boog: Boog compiles McCracken’s advice from Twitter about applying for a graduate degree in fiction writing. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/fiction-mfa-application-advice-from-elizabeth-mccracken_b79277

10/22/13

“What’s Behind the Notion That Nonfiction Is More ‘Relevant’ Than Fiction?” by Rivka Galchen and Pankaj Mishra in N.Y. Times’ Sunday Book Review: The two authors discuss how the notion of truth is contained in fiction. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/whats-behind-the-notion-that-nonfiction-is-more-relevant-than-fiction.html?_r=0

“Enigmatic Dickinson Revealed Online,” by N.Y. Times’ Jennifer Schuessler: “The manuscripts of Emily Dickinson have long been scattered across multiple archives, meaning scholars had to knock on numerous doors to see all the handwritten drafts of a poet whose work went almost entirely unpublished in her lifetime. The online Emily Dickinson Archive, to be inaugurated on Wednesday, promises to change all that by bringing together on a single open-access Web site thousands of manuscripts held by Harvard University, Amherst College, the Boston Public Library and five other institutions.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/books/enigmatic-dickinson-revealed-online.html?_r=0

10/18/13

“Mark Twain Plays With Electricity in Nikola Tesla’s Lab (Photo, 1894),” posted by Open Culture: Photograph of Twain in Tesla’s laboratory. http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/mark-twain-plays-with-electricity-in-nikola-teslas-lab-photo-1894.html