http://www.stylustutors.com Write well. Test well. Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:21:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/nation-readers-summer-books http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/nation-readers-summer-books#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:04:11 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=734 Here is a summer reading list, courtesy of the readers of The Nation.

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]]> http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-from-donald-barthelme/feed 0 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/new-york-times-ten-best-books-of-2009 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/new-york-times-ten-best-books-of-2009#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:30:52 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=505 Here are some more books to add to your reading list, courtesy of the New York Times Book Review.

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]]> http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/books-of-the-year-the-guardian/feed 0 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/books-of-the-year-the-atlantic http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/books-of-the-year-the-atlantic#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:42:19 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=436 In the December issue of the Atlantic, literary editor Benjamin Schwarz picks his top 25 books of 2009, among them The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt, The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard Evans, and It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun.

]]> http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/books-of-the-year-the-atlantic/feed 0 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-creating-the-canon http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-creating-the-canon#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:02 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=375 Cynthia Crossen of the Wall Street Journal discusses the “canon wars”–the debate over whether, and which, modern texts should be added to the works of literature being taught and studied within academia.  She also suggests several sources of classic book lists: Clifton Fadiman’s Lifetime Reading Plan, the St. John’s College Reading List, the appendices to Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, and Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel.

]]> http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-creating-the-canon/feed 0 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/literature-for-college-bound-students http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/literature-for-college-bound-students#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:30:07 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=299 This suggested reading list from the American Library Association includes authors like Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Allison, and Peter Cameron.

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]]> http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/college-bound-reading-list/feed 0 http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-list-bank-street-library http://www.stylustutors.com/book-lists/suggested-reading-list-bank-street-library#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:46:41 +0000 admin http://www.stylustutors.com/?p=182 If you’re still trying to find the perfect books for summer reading, perhaps these lists from Bank Street will help.  They are divided into books suitable for students in lower, middle, and upper grades.

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