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New app to celebrate centenary of Joyce’s Dubliners.
One hundred years after James Joyce’s “The Dead” was first published, a new iPad app relating to it has been launched.
The closing story of “Dubliners” is regarded by many as the greatest short story of the 20th century.
The new app includes the full story read by actor Barry McGovern, plus period images and podcast commentaries.
Free poetry app.
With the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY mobile app, you can now take hundreds of poems by classic and contemporary poets with you wherever you go.
GET IT NOW, FOR FREE!
From William Shakespeare to César Vallejo to Heather McHugh, the Poetry Foundation’s app turns your phone into a mobile poetry library:
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Search for old favorites with memorable lines.
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Give your phone a shake to discover new poems to fit any mood.
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Save your favorite poems to read and share later—through Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail.
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Read poems by T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and many others.
Find out more at The Poetry Foundation.
Lip Dub Lincoln!
Authors should embrace Twitter.
The internet is the best thing that has ever happened for writers.
Not everyone agrees with this.
Some people wish writers would stay the hell off Twitter and stick to writing their books.
Source: Booktrust.