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MISCELLANEOUS
Philosophy & Literature - includes links to articles and opinion from around the world.
BookWire Directory - links to booksellers, publishers, libraries, and other book resources.
Poets & Writers Literary Links - links to conferences & residencies, grants and awards, literary magazines, national & organizations, small presses, writing programs & young writers resources.
Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources from Library of Congress. Includes list of electronic text collections, poetry sites, and works by specific authors, etc.
Latin Author Index - essays on Latin authors by William Harris, Prof. Em. Middlebury College.
Author Pages - from the webpage of Alan Gullette - author categories include fiction of the absurd, supernatural horror and fantasy, and Surrealist writers.
Literatures (Other than English) from Voice of the Shuttle
Romantic Circles from University of Maryland, College Park
The Literary Gothic - guide to Gothic literature. Includes links to e-texts.
Literary Calendar - provides poem/prose a day, biographies, and more.

LITERARY AWARDS & PRIZES
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards - huge index to awards by categories such as major awards, themes, etc.
And the Winner is... - the drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads. Article by Laura Miller from Salon.com, Nov. 16, 2000.
When Bad Writing Happens to Good Sex - NY Times article (from Jan. 11, 1998) about The Literary Review's Bad Sex Award.
The Bad Sex Report - from The Literary Review, 1998.
The Bad Writing Contest - sponsored by the scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature.
Prize-Winning Books Online - from The Online Books Page.
Pulitzer Prizes for Letters 1917-2000 - categories include fiction, drama, poetry, biography, history.

SYMBOLISM, DECADENCE AND ART NOUVEAU
Symbolists - a definition from the Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000.
Decadents - definition from the Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000.
Art Nouveau - a definition from the Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000.
FA 451 Symbolism and Art Nouveau - course website by Jeffrey Howe at Boston College. Includes online texts and archive of art.
Symbolist Painting, Poetry and Illustration - from beautyandruin.com.
ArtMagick: The Symbolists - browse paintings by artist's name.
Aubrey Beardsley - biographical information. Includes images from Le Morte D'Arthur, Salome and a few other publications.
Aubrey Beardsley Books
Aubrey Beardsley Art Image Collections
The Dark Arts - an archive of Decadent illustrators and authors.
Illustrations from Huysmans' A Rebours - from The Dark Arts site above.
Fin de Siècle Mavericks - "exoticism, eroticism and experiment at the end of the 19th century and beyond... "
Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle
Decadence -- A Chronology - from Jeffrey Howe at Boston College.
Symbolism and Art Nouveau -- A Brief Chronology - from Jeffrey Howe at Boston College.
Timeline of Art Nouveau Period - from the National Gallery of Art.
Fin de Siècle - a reading list for an English course offered at Birkbeck University of London.
Fin-de-Siècle Symbolist and Avant-Garde Periodicals - a list from Bobst Library at NYU.

POETRY
Poetry - from artmagick.com.
Poetry MoodMatcher - from The Guardian's book section, games.
Eros - a few erotic poems from past ages.
Charles Baudelaire - a few poems by him and a link to biographical info.
Charles Péguy - information about the French poet.
Table of Contents of Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry. Volume One: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude

SCIENCE FICTION
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia
The Locus Index to Science Fiction - directory of online Locus Indices compiled from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine. Also includes link to The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards.

AMERICAN LITERATURE
American Literature Anthology - includes some links to full text of authors works. Arranged by century, (covers 16-20th centuries) and alphabetically by author.

ENGLISH LITERATURE
The British Literature Index - from the Medieval to the Modern period.
English Literature from Voice of the Shuttle.
Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century literature - from luminarium.org. Includes authors, works, biographical info. and more
The Gothic Literature Page - devoted to study of Gothic Literature in England from 1764 to 1834. Well-designed. Includes bibliography and extensive links.

FRENCH LITERATURE
French Literature - from the Open Directory site.
19th-Century French Literature - from globegate.utm.edu.
French Literature - from Voice of the Shuttle.
Fin-de-Siècle Symbolist and Avant-Garde Periodicals - a list from Bobst Library at NYU.
Decadents - definition from the Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000.
Symbolists - a definition from the Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000.

BOOK FAIRS, AUTHOR APPEARANCES AND OTHER LITERARY EVENTS
Book Fairs and Other Literary Events - nationwide events. Site from the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Authors on the Highway - from publishersweekly.com. Lists author appearances at bookstores and other locations.
Barnes and Noble Store Events Locator - enter city and state and you will receive a list of author events.
Bookwire: NetRead Calender of Events
NetRead EventCaster - broadcasts literary events to event editors at newspapers and web sites that subscribe to this free service.

BOOKSTORES
NewPages Guide to Independent Bookstores - in the United States, organized by state.
Bookstores in New York City
Directory of Infoshops, Bookshops and Radical Places - includes bookstores with an anarchist bent. Organized geographically, includes Australia and Asia, but most listings are for North America.
Feminist Bookstore Index - international, organized by region.

---- Online Bookstores
Amazon
Varsity Books
Barnes and Noble
Ecampus - free shipping.
Growth House, Inc. - online bookstore for death, dying, hospice, grief, bereavement and thanatology.

---- Price Comparison Shopping
PriceSCAN Books - unbiased guide to the lowest prices on books. This is not totally accurate so double check against other searches.
Alibris - shop the inventory of thousands of booksellers from one source. Good for out-of-print books.
Best Book Buys - a price comparison site that searches over 20 bookstores simultaneously to find which store offers a book at the lowest price. Includes new and used books in search. More accurate than AddAll from my experience.
AddAll - independent site (not owned by any bookstore) for book searching and price comparison of 41 bookstores.

---- Used Books
Bookopoly.com - buy or sell used and new books. Charges commission to sellers only if you sell your book.
Bookswap.com - used textbook classifieds. Free service supported by advertisers and sponsors.
Half.com - buy/sell used books. 15% commission is deducted after your item sells.
Yahoo Book Warehouse

FAVORITE AUTHORS/ BOOKS
My personal favorites, with some links to titles available online in full-text. Also here is a list of what I'm currently reading.

BOOK REVIEWS
The Atlantic: Books
Book Magazine
Boston Globe: Books
Chicago Tribune: Books
CNN - Books: Reviews
CS Monitor: Books
The Complete Review
Evening Standard
Globe and Mail: Books
Guardian/Observer
Independent Books
The Irish Times: Books
January Magazine
Lingua Franca Books
London Review of Books
LA Times Books
Melbourne Age
National Post
The New Republic: Books
New York Review
New York Times: Books
Newsday: Books
Philadelphia Inquirer: Books
SF Chronicle Books
The Spectator: Books
Telegraph: Books
The Times Literary Supplement
Village Voice: Books
Village Voice Literary Supplement
Washington Post
Women's Books Online
The Women's Review of Books
---- Related
The amazing disappearing book review - article from Salon.com July 19, 2001. "In the age of market research, newspaper editors have decreed that their readers just don't care about books."

LITERARY MAGAZINES & ZINES
(also see book reviews section above)
NewPages Guide to Literary Periodicals
Poets & Writers Literary Links: Literary Magazines
The Absinthe Literary Review
The Constant Reader
Exquisite Corpse - "a journal of letters and life". I'd say a mixed bag and much of it garbage unfortunately.

FIRST CHAPTERS / EXCERPTS OF BOOKS (partial text)
CNN: First Chapters
Guardian Unlimited: First Chapters
Guardian Unlimited: Extracts
The Reading Room Archive - a collection of first chapters from books discussed on WNYC NY Radio.
NY Times: First Chapters - includes fiction and non-fiction selection of first chapters from books reviewed.
Washington Post: Chapter One

ELECTRONIC TEXTS / ONLINE BOOKS (in full-text)
---- Multiple Collections
Bibliomania - includes classic texts, reference books, biographies, and more.
Classic Reader - includes fiction, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, children's stories.
Electronic Text Collections - a list of links from the Library of Congress Internet Resource page. Also includes poetry sites, and works by specific authors, etc.
Bartleby: Reference - Includes encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quotations, english usage guides, and more.
Bartleby: Fiction - Includes anthologies and texts from Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf. Also includes non-fiction, verse, title, and author sections.
American Literature Anthology - includes some links to full text of authors works. Arranged by century, (covers 16-20th centuries) and alphabetically by author.
The On-Line Books Page - hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Includes 16,000+ listings. A section called Features includes A Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books Online, and Prize Winners Online.
Eighteenth-Century Studies - archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period.
Online Gothic Texts - includes full-text and a bibliography of critical sources on the Gothic Novel.
Gaslight Electronic Text and Discussion site - genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919.
The Situationist International Text Library - entire books, lengthy articles, excerpts from the journals Potlatch and Internationale Situationniste, and newspaper articles are just a few of the files to be found here.
---- Individual Titles
The SCUM Manifesto - by Valerie Solanas.
Steal This Book - by Abbie Hoffman .
Stories by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam from Contes Cruels - translated by Hamish Miles. Includes 5 stories from the collection.
---- Dictionaries
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. 2000.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
English to American Dictionary
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Language Dictionaries - from yourdictionary.com Portal to a multitude of dictionaries.
WordReference - online dictionary for translating English to Spanish, German, Italian, French and vice versa.


PUBLISHERS / DISTRIBUTERS
----List of Publishers
Independent Publishing Resources - article from Utne Reader.
NewPages Guide to Independent Publishers
The Book Wire Index of University Publishers - annotated list focuses mainly on American publishers, includes few international publishers.
Bowker's Publishers Home Pages & Online Catalogs - browse by name or by subject.
U.S. Publishers - from Bowker's Literary Market Place.
Canadian Publishers - from Bowker's Literary Market Place.
International Publishers - from Bowker's Literary Market Place.
Small Presses - from Bowker's Literary Market Place.
Poets & Writers Literary Links: Small Presses
Notable Presses - Chris Dodge's Street Librarian site.
The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog - option to search by keywords, subject, and press.
Electronic Publishing and Publishers - from Library of Congress Internet resource page.
---- Individual Publishers
AK Press & Distribution
Atlas Press - includes books related to Dada, Fluxus, Symbolists & Decadents and more. An unofficial Atlas Press site.
Dedalus Books
Marginal Distribution - specializes in the Canadian distribution of books and magazines from small and independent publishers. They carry alternative books about Architecture, the Beats, Cultural Studies, Film, Gay & Lesbian Issues, Politics, Women's Studies, etc. View the list of publishers they distribute.
Verso Books
Xlibris - service to help authors become their own publisher. Pays royalties to author on each sale and authors keep the rights to their own work.

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Last updated: April 23, 2002