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“Writing/Righting Your Life the Dante Way,” a Coffee & Cocktails podcast episode (2020)

November 23, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Podcast-Writing-Righting-your-life-the-Dante-Way“‘Writing/Righting Your Life the Dante Way,’ Or ‘How to awaken your potential, pin-point your goals, and discover a way forward in tough times’ with Dr. Kristin Stasiowski of Kent State University.

“This incredible talk by Dr. Stasiowski speaks to the importance of learning from our past and how historical literature can be a source of inspiration and motivation especially during dark times.”   —The Coffee & Cocktails Podcast with Dr. Ann Wand (November 23, 2020)

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2020, History, Inspiration, Podcasts, Religion, Spirituality, Writing

“What Happens When a Writer Hates the Heroine of Her New Book?” Excerpt from Nisha Susan’s The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories

October 4, 2020 By lsanchez

“In her second week at the library, she was choked. Somewhere in this building, she had been told, is an actual manuscript of the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri had not sat around in the 1300s writing coy shit. Somewhere near here, Arun Kolatkar had written Jejuri and the Kala Ghoda poems. Somewhere near here, Kolatkar had died. Where in her writing was the blood, the grime, the puking on the streets and the deep stuff?”    –Nisha Susan, excerpt from The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories, Huffington Post, August 10, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Authors, Books, Fiction, Humor, India, Libraries, Mumbai, Short Stories, Writing

“Knowledge is Power” – Andrew Adom

September 18, 2020 By lsanchez

“Knowledge is Power,” a literacy narrative by Andrew Adom in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, in which Andrew recounts his experience in first reading literary classics, such as Dante’s Inferno.

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: Ghana, Inferno, New Albany, Ohio, Reading, Writing

“How long will I be on Submission? (they sob)”

December 15, 2019 By lsanchez

“The Wait haunts all stages of writing for publication. There are different levels of waiting, a bit like Dante’s circles of hell. Waiting for critique, waiting to hear from agents, waiting to receive edits, waiting for feedback on edits, waiting waiting waiting W A I T I N G.”    –Lindsay Galvin, LindsayGalvin.com, October 5, 2017

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Inferno, Tenth Circle, Writing

“Writer’s Block: Dante Alighieri”

November 21, 2019 By lsanchez

“His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened ‘Divina’ by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

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“Writer’s Blocks are handmade odes to history’s greatest writers. Each 2″ x 2″ x 2″ solid wood block features the portrait, signature, and famous works of a particular author.”    –Literature Lodge, Etsy

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2019, Dante Portraits, Etsy, Writing

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