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LITERARY LINKS

• 826 Valencia
• The Believer
• University of Virginia E-text library
• Chawton House Library and Study Centre
• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Electronic Poetry Center
• Indigenous People's Literature
• Internet Poetry Archive
• Literary Kicks [Beat Generation]
• Literary Kicks [Hippie Generation]
• Mystery Reader's Journal
• 19th Century Women Writers
• The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors
• Newbery Award [children's literature]
• Nobel Prize Winners
• Project Gutenberg [online texts]
• Project Runeberg
• Shakespearean Insults
• The Surrealism Server
• Surrealism
• Twentieth Century Poetry in English

BOOK RELATED SITES

• American Bookseller's Association
• American Library Association
• Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
• The Bancroft Library
• The Adventures of Barrett: The Racehorse with Magic Shoes
• Bibliophile Bullpen
• Book Lovers
• Bold Type
• Bookwire [industry news]
• Everyone Who's Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing
• Fearless Independents [dozens of links to Independent Booksellers in North America]
• Library of Congress
• Libraries on the Web
• Marin Poetry Center
• National Book Critics Circle
• Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
• San Francisco Bay Area Book Council
• The San Francisco Public Library

• Kathy Acker
• Margaret Atwood
• Jane Austen
• Jane Austen
  - Jane Austen Society
• Russell Banks
• Charles Baxter
• Madison Smartt Bell
• Hakim Bey
• Bizarro [Dan Pirarro]
• William Blake
• Kiara Brinkman
• Lisa K. Buchanan
• A. S. Byatt
• CAConrad
• Lewis Carroll
• Michael Chabon
• Billy Collins
  US Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
• Bernard Cooper
• Douglas Coupland
• Michael Cunningham
• Daniel Defoe
• Charles Dickens
• Emily Dickinson
  - Electronic Archives
• Emily Dickinson
  - International Society
• Firoozeh Dumas
• Anne Fadiman
• Jonathan Franzen
• Alexandra Fuller
• Neil Gaiman
• William Gibson
• Ira Glass
• Louse Glück
  United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004)
• Terry Gross

• Daniel Handler
  (aka Lemony Snicket)
• Robert Hass
  United States Poet Laureate (1995–1997)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Seamus Heaney
• Ernest Hemingway
• Jane Hirshfield
• Langston Hughes
• Franz Kafka
• John Keats
• Elizabeth Kolbert
• Milan Kundera
• Tony Kushner
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Anne Lamott
• Edward Lear
• C.S. Lewis
• Barry Lopez
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Armistead Maupin
• Frances Mayes
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Cormac McCarthy
• Carson McCullers
• Herman Melville
• W. S. Merwin
• Henry Miller
• Anchee Min
• Yukio Mishima
• Azar Nafisi
• Kathleen Norris
• Naomi Shihab Nye
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• Michael Ondaatje
• Suzan-Lori Parks

• Kenneth Patchen
• Robert Pinsky
  US Poet Laureate (1997-2000)
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Alexandr Pushkin
• Thomas Pynchon
• David Rakoff
• Adrienne Rich
• Frank Rich
• Luis Rodriquez
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Salman Rushdie
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• J.D. Salinger
• Mark Salzman
• Robert M. Sapolsky
• Marjane Satrapi
• Orville Schell
• Alice Sebold
• David Sedaris
• William Shakespeare
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Scott Simon
• Sarah Smith
• Art Spiegelman
• Amy Tan
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Mark Twain
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Sarah Vowell
• Chris Ware
• Walt Whitman
• Terry Tempest Williams
• Thomas Wolfe
• William Wordsworth