Tag: literature

  • A quick scan over the list of books banned by American schools makes for some intriguing reading. Among their number you can find such famous titles as A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Lord of the Flies by…

  • It’s no secret that the team here at Nothing in the Rulebook are always looking out for new and exciting creative projects. So when we stumbled upon the work of the exquisitely excellent Lunar Poetry Podcasts, we immediately wanted to introduce all our fine readers to it, too. Founded in October 2014 in south-east London, Lunar Poetry Podcasts…

  • Donald Trump’s often bizarre and frequently unsettling use of language has been a source of both amusement and horror to onlookers around the world. Yet, like many egomaniacs before him, his words have a strange aesthetic quality that seems to lend them to the form of poetic verse. For a man who spins his own…

  • If Ireland is seen by some people in the world as some kind of romantic ideal, it must be seen only through the prism of eyes that have not seen news or history of the killings in the North, or how Irish women were considered far too lovely for contraception (and still today too lovely…

  • Curling up with a book (or doing anything with a book, for that matter) may not be how you would first think to spend your St Patrick’s Day. A national holiday for the Emerald Isle which has been adopted by peoples across the world with no connection to Ireland but a keen desire to use…

  • It is It is fifty five years since Sylvia Plath killed herself, in her flat in London, near Primrose Hill, in a house where William Butler Yeats once lived. She was thirty-one. Her two children, Frieda, age three, and Nicholas, barely one, slept in the next room. The details of her suicide are known most…

  • Attention all book lovers! Ever wanted to own your own bookstore? Well, now you can – and through a writing competition, no less! From My Shelf is a small, independently owned bookstore in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, USA. Year round, they welcome in-store shoppers to browse the more than 60,000 new and gently used books that they…

  • The New Yorker fiction podcast has a great episode up right now, with Lorrie Moore joining Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Naked Ladies,” by Antonya Nelson, from a 1992 issue of the magazine. https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/?share=1#file=/audio/json/837438/ Here’s an excerpt from Nelson’s excellent short story below: “Laura Laughlin, 17, and her family attended the annual Easter frolic of…

  • Let’s not beat around the prehistoric bush. Dinosaur erotica exists, and it’s time you knew about it. Now, there’s a real chance the two types of people reading this article will fall into extremely binary categories: those who have read dinosaur erotica, and those who are now a matter of seconds away from finding out…

  • If you’re reading this, it’s likely because you are as fascinated as we are by the quite frankly insane world of dinosaur erotica. We’ve already compiled a detailed introduction to the sub-genre that will help get you up to speed with the scaly, sexy goings on of this monster erotica sub-genre. Now, we’re going one…