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September 05, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS
10 Year Anniversary Book, Editors' Choices from The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, (see order form) and its corresponding on-line version (see left panel): editor-annotators discuss the literature, art, and films they consider most valuable for medical humanities teaching and related scholarship (published October 2003).

Note the link from A Roster of Twentieth Century Physicians Writing in English to information about the Daniel Bryant collection of books by physician writers at NYU School of Medicine 		  Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog Latest Posts:
 

NEW MATERIAL

2 New Film Annotations
12 New Literature Annotations
14 New Authors

 

CHANGES:

Author Harvey Pekar died on July 12, 2010.
Author José Saramago died on June 18, 2010.
    
Paul Harding has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, Tinkers.

 

ADDITIONS:

There is a new subcategory of film: Web Video. See annotation of "In My Language."

NEW LINKS HAVE BEEN MADE TO:

 
Annotated art work (see also the Viewing Room):
Thomas Eakins  The Gross Clinic
Ed Kashi  Aging in America
Alice Neel  Loneliness
Albert Pinkham Ryder  The Race Track or Death on a Pale Horse
Julie Winokur  Aging in America
 
Homepages of artists (see also Meet the Artist):
Thomas Eakins
 
Homepages of authors (see also Meet the Author):
Anna Akhmatova , Claribel Alegria , Matthew Alexander , A. R. Ammons , Maya Angelou , W. H. Auden , Jimmy Santiago Baca , Mary Jo Bang , Elizabeth Bishop , Louise Bogan , Philip Booth , Joseph Brodsky , Gwendolyn Brooks , Sterling A. Brown , Robert Browning , Charles Bukowski , Kathryn Stripling Byer , Rafael Campo , Hayden Carruth , Catharine Clark-Sayles , Lucille Clifton , Marion Deutsche Cohen , Wilkie Collins , Billy Collins , Gregory Corso , Hart Crane , E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings , Toi Derricotte , James Dickey , John Donne , Mark Doty , Rita Dove , Helen Dunmore , Kelly Easton , T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot , Robert Frost , Tess Gallagher , Tess Gerritsen , Allen Ginsberg , Thom Gunn , Marilyn Hacker , Michael S. Harper , Robert Hass , Anthony Hecht , Nazim Hikmet , Edward Hirsch , Jane Hirschfield , Tony Hoagland , Gerard Manley Hopkins , A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman , Ted Hughes , Richard Hugo , Catherine Ryan Hyde , David Ignatow , Roy Jacobstein , Mark Jarman , Randall Jarrell , Ben Jonson , June Jordan , John Keats , Stanley Kunitz , Philip Larkin , D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence , Li-Young Lee , Denise Levertov , Robert Lowell , Thomas Lux , William Matthews , Phyllis McGinley , Heather McHugh , Claude McKay , W. S. Merwin , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Lisel Mueller , Paul Muldoon , Frank O'Hara , Sharon Olds , Mary Oliver , Michael Ondaatje , Alicia Suskin Ostriker , Tim Parks , Linda Pastan , Marge Piercy , Sylvia Plath , Stanley Plumly , Edgar Allan Poe , Claudia Rankine , Adrienne Rich , Jan Richman , Rainer Maria Rilke , Theodore Roethke , Nicholas Ruddock , Anne Sexton , William Shakespeare , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Shel (Sheldon Allan) Silverstein , Louis Simpson , W. D. Snodgrass , Gary Soto , Gertrude Stein , Ruth Stone , Mark Strand , May Swenson , Dylan Thomas , Jean Toomer , Mona Van Duyn , Judith Viorst , Ellen Bryant Voigt , David Wagoner , Alice Walker , William Carlos Williams , C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Williams , Thomas W. Worcester , William Wordsworth and James Wright
 
Annotated work with online text (see also the Reading Room):
Maya Angelou  Phenomenal Woman
Catharine Clark-Sayles  One Breath
Lucille Clifton  the lost baby poem
Charles Dickens  The Old Curiosity Shop
Kirsten Emmott  How Do You Feel?
Lisel Mueller  Monet Refuses the Operation
Sharon Olds  High School Senior
Emile Zola  Doctor Pascal
 
Online excerpts of films and videos (see also the Screening Room):
I Remember Better When I Paint 
Shutter Island 
 
TOTAL DATABASE CONTENTS
143 Art Annotations
236 Film Annotations
2496 Literature Annotations
2 Theater Annotations
89 Artists
1564 Authors
138 Keywords