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In Gatsby's Tracks: Locating the Valley of Ashes in a 1924 Photo

by Levi Asher on Thursday, February 25, 2010 06:57 pm
Fiction, History, Jazz Age, New York City, Polls and Questions

I'm really impressed that 104 of 148 commenters who guessed about the mystery literary photo I posted on Wednesday correctly identified The Great Gatsby as the novel in question. Four other novels that got some mentions were To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Reasonable guesses all, but the fact that the photo was taken in 1924 was the giveaway.

... read more and add your thoughts (11 comments)



A Murder and a Metaphor: Litkicks Mystery Spot #1

by Levi Asher on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 06:00 pm
Fiction, History, Polls and Questions

Can you identify the famous literary work represented in the photograph above? Here are a couple of hints:

• You have definitely read this novel. It's one of the most widely loved novels of all time.

• A person is killed, during one of the novel's climactic scenes, by the forked road near the top right of the photo.

... read more and add your thoughts (161 comments)



The Awesome and Important LitKicks Reading Survey

by Jamelah Earle on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:40 pm
Polls and Questions, Reading
graphs! it's true!
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How Much Are You Reading?

by Jamelah Earle on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 08:35 pm
Polls and Questions
Living in the Information Age, as we apparently do, one thing that's easy is finding things to read. We often think of reading in a traditional way -- sitting down with a book and turning pages -- but there's so much more than that. Even before the time when we pretty much always had a web browser open, there were plenty of things available for reading, from the backs of cereal boxes to the graffiti on bathroom walls.
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The Process

by Jamelah Earle on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 07:59 pm
Being A Writer, Polls and Questions
First, it's a feeling. Then the ideas come, maybe fully-formed, or maybe in pieces, sliding ghost-like into your head and playing in front of the walls of your mind for awhile before disappearing again. You watch them, or listen to them, or watch and listen to them, thinking about how to turn them into words. Sitting at a desk chair with one knee drawn up to your chin, staring ahead at the blank document on the computer screen, waiting until you're sure you've got it before finally beginning to type.
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Data Collection Experiment: Survey Says…

by Caryn Thurman on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 06:06 pm
National Poetry Month, Poetry, Polls and Questions, Reading
So as I mentioned here, the results of the Poetry Foundation's mega-survey is now available on their website and offers all kinds of tasty nuggets about the American public's poetic habits and preferences. Well, while I certainly appreciate all their hard work, I think maybe a quick survey of the passers-by of LitKicks is in order.

Let's get 'er done, shall we?

1. Do you even like poetry or are you totally faking it?
... read more and add your thoughts (12 comments)



What You Want

by Levi Asher on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 09:20 pm
Polls and Questions, Reading
Today's question comes to you courtesy of Singlemalt:

What do you want from a great author?

What do I want? Simple. Make me want to turn the page.

Ok, so I learned something, great. But make me want to turn the page.

He can really turn a phrase, is insightful, is witty. Terrific. But make me want to turn the page.

... read more and add your thoughts (37 comments)



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