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Literary Links
Links to web pages about literature compiled by Steve Hayes. These are authors or books that have interested me or influenced me at one time or another.
Beat Generation
- The Beat Generation FAQ file - a chronology of Beat Generation literature, and links to other sites
- Beat scene - comments and links about beat generation authors, and their writing methods
- Jack Kerouac pages - a book shop in California that sells Beat Genearation literature
- Sherri's Beat Bibliography - maintained by Sherri, the official Literary Kicks bibliographer
- The Beat Generation - like the French Impressionists in Paris, the Beat writers were a small group of close friends first, and a movement later
- Literary Kicks - This seems to be a mirror of "The Beat Generation", or that one is a mirror of this. Whichever way round it is, you can find similar stuff about Kerouac, Ginsberg etc al.
- Hippie Literature of the 1960s - an exhibit of sixties literature by the University of Virginia
- The Wild Bohemian Home Page - Beats, hippies and more, with information about the links between them
- Death to the world - not quite the beat geneartion, but something on the Christian counter-culture inspired by Fr Seraphim Rose, who studied under Alan Watts at about the same time as Gary Snyder and Lew Welch.
Dostoevsky
- The Dostoevsky site - the life and work of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist.
- Literature and nihilism - a discussion of the responses of various authors to nihilism. Includes Turgenev's Fathers and sons, Lewis's Out of the silent planet, Dostoevsky and more.
The Inklings
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and a few others belonged to an informal group called the Inklings, and used to read their writings to each other. There's more about them on my Inklings page, and in addition to the sites listed here, you can find other related sites on the Inklings Webring.
Almost Inklings
The following authors, while not members of the Inklings have (at least in my mind) some kind of affinity with them, either through writing fantasy or mythical literature of a similar kind, or for experessing similar theological concerns, or appealling to the same kind of readers that the Inklings appeal to. Perhaps they could be called "honorary Inklings".
- Alan Garner - the author of The weirdstone of Brisingamen, The moon of Gomrath and Elidor.
- Elidor: the gardens within - a critique of Alan Garner's Elidor.
- Madeleine l'Engle - in some ways Madeleine l'Engle could be an honorary Inkling. Her books have some features common to the Inklings, a blending of fantasy and everyday life.
Theological Books
- The Fr Alexander Schmemann Home Page - Fr Alexander Schmemann was the Dean of the St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, USA. He wrote several books in English on Orthodox theology, and his books helped to make Orthodoxy better-known in the English-speaking world.
Miscellaneous links
- Alan Paton - one of South Africa's best-known authors, whose novel Cry the beloved country has been made into a film more than once, originally as a musical called Lost in the stars and more recently in a version under its own title, which, in spite of its use of foreign actors in the major roles, remains faithful to the book. There is also a web page for the film.
- BookCrossing.Com - an interesting site where people exchange books by releasing them "into the wild".
- Robertson Davies - a Canadian author whose works seem to be a well-kept secret.
- H.P. Lovecraft - this 1930s horror writer is enjoing a revival of popularity.
- End of the world books - an annotated list of books with an "end of the world" scenario. Some disaster - plague or nuclear war - has struck the planet, and only a handful of survivors remain. Another site with a similar theme is Decimated Earth
- RABble - web pages of some regular participants in the rec.arts.books newsgroup.
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Journals and ezines
Ancient Paths - a journal of Christian art and literature
If you'd like to discuss anything on these pages about books and literature, and I hope you will, then the best way of doing it is through our BOOKS discussion conference, or the THEOLOGY conference. You can join these conferences either by calling a BBS linked to the FamilyNet network, or by subscribing to them through e-mail mailing lists called family.books and family.theology.
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