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Dr. Seuss was a failure to start, but he soon learned to follow his heart. He wrote books about things that he knew, and soon enough, his book sales flew. Although the doc is now long passed, his stories are still selling fast. So now today the real question is: what can we learn from a writer in the biz? Is it love, friendship, or compassion? Let's have a debate in orderly fashion.
Author Highlights Videos 22 videos
Dr. Seuss was a failure to start, but he soon learned to follow his heart. He wrote books about things that he knew, and soon enough, his book sale...
Sure, Edgar Allan Poe was dark and moody and filled with teenage angst, but what else does he have in common with the Twilight series?
Critics Videos 4 videos
If there weren’t literary critics to help us understand what we’re reading and why, our copy of The Sound and the Fury might as well function a...
Critics started attacking Donne's works only after he had passed away. Talk about kicking a guy when he's already down.
Who was Michel Foucault? This video introduces the French philosopher and social theorist who focused on discipline, discourse, and power. What are...
Literary Forms Videos 43 videos
This video defines sonnets, a favorite of William Shakespeare. What are the different types of sonnet? How do you identify different kinds of sonne...
In Maya Angelou's poem "Africa," she compares Africa's pain and struggles to a woman being brutalized. Why does she do this? Is it to draw sympathy...
It's so nice when a poem is straight with you right from the get-go, isn't it? If more poems were this considerate, "The Road Not Taken" might have...
Special Interest Videos 21 videos
Click on the "play" button...if you dare. Wow, you don't seem very scared. Well, we did what we could. Guess thrillers aren't our forte.
Historical fiction novels like The Help can whisk you back to a place and time that you may have only read about in history books. Or... a place an...
The gods and heroes battle it out with monsters in the best of mythology.
Themes Videos 151 videos
You might be hearing a chorus of farewells if you recommend A Farewell to Arms as the next read for your Fabulously Feisty Feminist Book Club.
Three scantily clad young girls enter a store. No, this isn’t your grandfather about to tell an inappropriate joke. And no, you’re not watching...
How do you insult the Soviet Union and get away with it? Make them animals. (No one will ever know.) That was George Orwell's plan, and it worked....