News / discussion groups and blogs for English literature topics

Newsgroups / discussion groups and blogs may provide useful information on specialist topics.
There are many thousands of such groups; here I've listed some resources that may be of use for English literature research.

This is the most comprehensive listing of literature newsgroups I've found. Part of the excellent Voice of the Shuttle website.
Topica discussion lists: Books and literature: Containing several hundred mailing list links, this page is part of Topica which claims to be 'the leader in e-mail discussion groups'.
The BookWire Index: Newsgroups: Another comprehensive listing of literature newsgroups.
Google Groups: Search for relevant groups such as rec.arts.books and alt.literature.
The Alliance of Literary Societies (UK): The Alliance comprises a number of separate literary societies, each concentrating on an individual author.

To search for interesting blogs, enter your topic (e.g. "african literature") into Google's blog search tool. Yahoo also provides a category listing to blogs about literature. (Remember that the quality of the information available can be very, very variable...here is one summary of the "Top 10 Literary and Book Blogs" (2008). An interesting Ozlit one is LiteraryMinded.)

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