turtleneck.net Approved Websites

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General Literary Resources/Link Lists
Writers/Works
Schools/Associations
Literary Oddities
Just Plain Interesting

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Reference

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: 'Nuff said.
  
• The Oxford English Dictionary: The holy grail of litgeeks.
• Literary Terms and Rhetoric: search A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices. Very useful tool for the serious litgeek.

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General Literary Resources/Link Lists

• Voice of the Shuttle: Incredibly great page with tons of links to general literary resources as well as texts and criticism on specific authors.
• A great Japanese University Page chock full of Literature Links
• Great Writers and Poets: Good writers link of some noteworthy authors and poets with links to the nobel winners.
• Yahoo Literary Journals Category
• Yahoo Web-published Literature Category
• LinkMaster: BOOKS
• LinkMaster: LITERATURE

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Writers/Works

• Official Chuck Palahniuk - A Writer's Cult: All Chuck, all the time. This guy knows everything about Chuck. Be afraid.
• IQ Infinity: the unknown James Joyce: Moderately ok Joyce page if you're a loser.
• The Brazen Head: A James Joyce Public House: Very good Joyce page, highly recommended by the Joycegeeks of turtleneck.net.
• The Samuel Beckett Endpage: As snooty as they come, from the inscrutable Mr. Beckett.
• William Faulkner on the Web: Nothing better while sipping a gin and tonic in a wicker chair on the lawn wearing a white linen suit.
• Shadows Bend: -- Update: This site appears to be down. More info when we have it. -- An original novel concerning a fictionalized trip by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Cthulhu f'tagn!
• Dunsany's Corner: Superb collection of e-texts and articles by and about the greatest writer of weird fiction ever.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Archive: Site devoted to a reclusive, racist homophobe who just happened to write masterful weird fiction.
• The Tolkien Archive: -- Update: This site appears to be down. More info when we have it. -- Tolkien site well worth checking out, snooty lit garbage. Includes an audio library!
• Neuromancer: E-text of Bill Gibson's goofy cyberpunk novel.

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Schools/Associations

• NYU English department home pages worldwide. Plan that MFA now!
• Associated Writing Programs: Consider membership in AWP if you like the scholastic side of literature and writing. Another great resource for choosing an MFA program.
• Eastern Michigan University Creative Writing Program: The ol' Alma Mater
• Miskatonic University: Several of the turtleneck.net staff have advanced degrees in esoterica from this distinguished New England University.

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Literary Oddities

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, including links to Viking pages. Check it out, you'll be glad you did.
• Englisc: Web page for and by a bunch of crazy freaks that write in Old English. So beautiful it makes Josh cry.

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Just Plain Interesting

• Lucky Kitchen: Freaky record label run by really cool cats. New site design (no longer really "new")-Josh says it's grown on him and he really likes the new design now.
• Cakewalk magazine: Cakewalk is the magazine for art, music, film, and sometimes the natural sciences. Good magazine for artfags.
• Metro Times: great eclectic mag about things in and around Detroit. Great place to find out about shows and restaurants as well as having the largest adult personals section I've ever seen outside of Penthouse.
• Lord of the Rings movies: The official site for Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkein's groundbreaking work. Everyone at turtleneck.net foams at the mouth about these movies and this site.
• This American Life: Ira Glass Rules!
• The Artchive: Because life is not just books and whisky.
• Audi: Cars for litgeeks
• VolksWagen: more cars for litgeeks.
• The Force.net: Star wars links and news. Very suave site.
• Borders.com: A nice little locally owned bookstore in Ann Arbor.

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