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Featured Sites:
Creative Writing Case Study - What's going on in contemporary writing?
Poets & Writers links to literary magazines, grants, etc.
webdelsol - Cutting-edge online journals.
WWOZ - Great New Orleans jazz.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer - A Nobel-Prize worthy Indonesian writer who recently died.
StorySouth - A new online journal with stories and poems from Kelly Cherry, Al Davis and others.
The Onion - Need some laughs? There's some great satire in this online journal from Madison, WI.
LitPage - Resources for readers, writers, students and teachers of literature.

Writing:
Find an Agent. No luck? Find more agents.
Explore writing culture at AWP or Poets and Writers.
Coffeehouse - Coffeehouse4writers gets a mixed review, but it can be a cool place to hang out.
Crafting the Braided Narrative - On writing a complex multi-character novel.
Creative Nonfiction - The journal devoted exclusively to the creative nonfiction genre.
PEN - A fellowship of writers to promote a culture of reading and to defend free expression.
Playwriting - The playwriting seminars.
Poetrysuperhighway - A great list of resources (also see Poetry Portal and Poetry Webring).
Poetry Magic - Want to learn how to write poetry? Start here.
Resources - Writer's resources (some reputable, some questionable) arranged alphabetically.
Fiction: Writer's Resources - A how-to online journal that's archived and that wants submissions.
Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for writers. What it says is what you get.
Writers on Writing archives 60 incisive essays.
The Paris Review Interviews - There is no other archive quite like the Paris Review Interviews.

Online Journals:
Alt-X Online - Experimental fiction. Also try E-Zine List, and Hypertext fiction.
American literary magazines - Scroll down this library's exhaustive list and see what you find.
Barcelona Review - An international review of contemporary fiction.
Cortland Review - A good archived literary journal with links to literary resources.
Electric Acorn - A literary journal from Ireland.
Zoetrope - A short fiction journal financed by Francis Ford Coppola that's often a good read.

Books:
Bookfinder - Searches many sites (Bibliofind, ABE) for used books. If no luck, try Alibris.
Booksense. com - Independent bookstores for independent minds.
Classic Writers - An alphabetized list of thumbnail biographies.
Amazon, B&N, Borders
Project Gutenberg - Thousands of books for free to download or read online.
Textbooks - Specializes in selling textbooks directly at good prices and also buys back texts.
Wired for Books - Hundreds of audio recordings of writers.

Arts & Letters:
Alternet.org - Independent and alternative journalism. Think for change.
Amnesty International - Working to protect human rights worldwide.
Arts & Letters Daily - This digest, updated daily, has a ton of links you'll want to follow.
Arts Journal - The daily digest of arts and cultural journalism.
The Drudge ReTort - This progressive tabloid has useful links to many columnists and news sources.
Zen Buddhist teachings.
McSweeney's - Short oddball articles on almost anything. Why don't you read and then submit?
Movies - Extensive reviews, although another movie site, aint-it-cool-news, can be more fun.
Newspapers Online - If it ain't here, forget about it. Or read the Irish Times, or Salon, or Slate, or Utne.
This American Life - An audio show that documents everyday life in this country.
The War Against Silence is a weekly music review column.

Art & Travel:
Currency Converter - Convert one currency to another.
Europe - Come to Europe. No? How about Prague in Central Europe? Or Ljubljana in Slovenia?
Lonely Planet Online - You've traveled with their guides in your pack. Now join them online.
Museums - Tour museums, including my favorite in Bali!
Rick Steves - The online version of his "Through the Back Door" travel guides.
Vincent van Gogh - The most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource - see everything.
Webcams - Real-time snapshots from your favorite places all over the world

General Research:
CyberTimes Navigator - New York Times reporters go here when using the web for research.
Britannica - The encyclopedia is now online. Use look for MLA Format or find Search Engines.
English Department Home Pages Worldwide
Folklore and Fairy Tales - An exhaustive alphabetized list of electronic texts. Deep wisdom here, folks.
Internet style sheets - A guide to MLA format. Make sure to use the correct literary terms.
Electronic databases - MSUM maintains links to various searchable databases.