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Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? – Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

Books

• 25 Things I Learned from Opening a Bookstore
• 300KS
• 40K Books
• Best Book Awards Lists
• Better Book Titles
• Between the Covers Rare Books
• Bibleomania
• Black Cat Books
• Book Carving
• Bookforum
• Book Oasis
• Book Slut
• Book Snob
• Bookmania
• Books Are People Too
• Books I Just Read
• Bookseer
• Bundle of Books
• Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!
• Goodreads
• Google Books
• If:Book
• Library Thing
• Literature.org
• Literature Project
• Little Free Library
• Mr. Bs Emporium of Reading Delights
• Powell’s Books
• Pratt Libraries Ex Libris Collection
• Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
• Tattered Cover Read & Feed
• The Book Depository
• The Dalkey Archive
• The Millions
• The Uncustomary Book Review
• Vintage Books & Anchor Books

Inspiration

Rory’s Story Cubes

Journals & Notebooks

• Black Cover
• Cavallini & Co.
• Field Notes
• Monsieur Notebooks
• Notemaker (Australia)
• Notebook Stories
• Pocket Mod

Lists

• Listography
• Lists of Note
• List of Women Writers (you could never read them all)
• Write Novel, Buy Eggs (inactive since November, 2010)

Lit & E-lit

• A Piece of Monologue
• Altx
• Black Iron Wings
• Critical Flame
• Electronic Literature: Where is It?
• Wikipedia Novels Portal
• shyboy
• Telescopic Text

LitMags

• NewPages (a comprehensive database)
• Bookforum (online mag about lit and those who love it)
• Poets & Writers (directory of litzmags)
  
• Fugue (University of Idaho)
• Narrative Magazine
• Plazm
• Wag’s Revue
• The New Canon
• The Rumpus
•  AWP

Low-tech

• Have Computers Taken Away Our Power?

penguin books (obsessed with these)

• Amazon UK Penguin Seller(s)
• A Penguin a Week
• Ebay Vintage Penguin Paperbacks (best source)
• Penguins 1-1000
• Penguins 1001-2000
• Penguins 2001-3000
• The Full Penguin Series (with some dates)
• A Penguin Habit
• Vintage Penguins on the Web
• Possible Source for Vintage Penguins
• IBEW Database 
• Sources for Old Books
• Independent Vintage Penguin Sets for Sale (scattered among other vintage books)
• Penguin Paperback Spotter’s Guild

Poetry

• Jacket 2
• Poetry Foundation
• Poets.org
• The Outlaw Poetry Network

Possibly Useful Web Aps

• Pocket
• Readability

Publishing/Publishers

• Exterminating Angel Press
• Pandamian
• Publishers Weekly
• Be Your Own Publicist
• Self-publishing Basics
• The Author Exploitation Business

Wish Things (for fun)

• Chester Wallace Tote Bags – Made in Oregon
• Astro Lamp

Words

• 19 Outstanding Words
• 100 Beautiful Words
• Dillfrog Muse
• List of Oxymorons
• Lost Words
• Netspeak
• OED Online
• One Look Reverse Dictionary
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Other-Wordly
• Princeton’s WordNet
• Save the Words
• Slang Dictionaries
• The Phrontistery: Obscure Words & Vocabulary Resources
• The Worknik Blog
• Websites for Writers
• Wolfram Alpha Words & Linguistics

Writer’s tools & Resources

• 10 Resources to Help You Write a Short Story
• 100 Search Engines for Research
• 420fables (a freewriting site – each session is timed for 4:20. the number might have to do with herbal enhancement. or not)
• 750 words – a place to write a minimum number of words every day
• 911 Writer’s Block
• 13 Free Writing Meter Widgets
• 50 Open Source Resources for Writers
• All Write–Fiction Advice
• Animal/Bird Group Names (list)
• Archetype: The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Psychology
• Character Personality Test
• Creative Writing Now
• Ecosystem Ruled Notebook (similar to Mole$kine)
• Fiction Desk, The
• Flippy’s Cat Names (a huge compendium of character names)
• How NOT to Fail Writing Your First Book
• How to Become a Writer Who Writes (Judy Reeves)
• How to Write a Short Story
• JDarkroom – a lovely opensource blank screen app that’s all yours to write on
• Journal Writing Ideas (729, to be exact)
• Kirkus Indie
• Literary Genres (Wikipedia)
• NANOWRIMO Word Count Meter
• Neophyte Writer, The
• Poets & Writers Tools for Writeers
• QuietWrite – a no-distraction screen where you can write and export your writing to WordPress
• Random Word Generator (up to 8 words generated for creative thinking)
• Refdesk
• Show, Don’t Tell
• Scrivener (Mac OS X writing software – $40)
• Terrible Minds
• The Creative Penn
• The Guardian’s 10 Rules for Writing Fiction
• The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do
• Cool Ways to Use Evernote
• V&A Writing Resources
• Word Dreams
• Write to Done
• Writer’s Chronicle
• Writers Cafe
• Writers Free Reference
• Writing Forward

Writers

• 100 First Lines
• Anthony Doerr
• Beckett’s Notebooks
• Thomas Bernhard
• British Women Writers (about 550 listed)
• Bukowski.net
• Quentin Crisp
• Janice Galloway
• Letters of Note
• Flann O’Brien
• Occupy Writers
• Paris Review Interviews
• The Paris Review
• Powell’s Books Author Interviews
• Published Writers Quotations About Writing
• W.G. Sebald
• Lore Segal
• Michael Ventura
• Writing for Ghosts