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First Edition of The Haunting of Hill House

Last October, Netflix released an in-title-only adaptation of one of my favorite novels The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. By chance, I had also assigned my creative writing class Jackson’s famous short story “The Lottery” along with a reimagining of it by Megan Mayhew Bergman called “The Lottery, Redux.” The very fact that I deci

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	Coffin Bell One by Tamara Burross Grisanti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel J. Adams, Nicole Appleby 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	In the Garden of the Crow by Angela Charmaine Craig (Goodreads Author) (Editor), B.J. Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joshua Gage (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.”
― Jonah Lehrer

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“for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a breaking in”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

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“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.
They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
― John Berryman, The Dream Songs

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“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Shelley

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2013 Books! — 92 members — last activity Jan 01, 2014 09:34AM
Readers unite & make a list of books we have read in 2013! The goal is 2013 books! This team & challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st ...more

Literary Disco — 1324 members — last activity Jan 28, 2025 03:45PM
A podcast all about books. Hosted by Tod Goldberg, Julia Pistell, and Rider Strong. Old books, new books, and book-related games. Occasionally, a gues ...more

2014 Books! — 69 members — last activity Dec 31, 2014 06:52PM
Readers unite & make a list of books we have read in 2014! The goal is 2014 books! This team & challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st ...more

#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge — 2659 members — last activity Aug 20, 2025 03:13PM
In 2021, I'm hosting a year-long readathon where I - and hopefully you! - will be reading as many classics as possible. The #ClassicsCommunity is an ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22484 members — last activity Nov 09, 2026 12:22PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Q&A with Annam Manthiram — 9 members — last activity Feb 26, 2013 01:54PM
Discuss Annam's newest work, Dysfunction, a collection of stories Publishers Weekly describes as "displaying allegorical brilliance on the scale of a ...more