Salon Audio: Formerly MP3Lit, this site offers hundreds of spoken-word recordings by both famous and not-so-famous authors in RealAudio and MP3 formats.
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Bold Type: an online literary magazine produced by Random House, which means that it features only Random House authors. However, they've got quite a stable of gifted writers, and the magazine has excellent content, including excerpts, reviews, interviews, and audio readings.
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New York Times Books: This is a comprehensive site featuring the Sunday Book Review, daily news and reviews, first chapters, bestseller lists, and more. (Requires free registration.)
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The Online Books Page: This site is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes an index of thousands of these books, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, and special exhibits.
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Boston Book Review: One of the nation's most respected reviews, the online eddtion of BBR contains original fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, plus reviews assessing works in a wide variety of topics.
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New York Review of Books: Selected articles and reviews from current and past print issues and audio of author readings are the main attractions of this site.
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Bookbrowse: This site contains excerpts from the most popular current literature, plus brief reviews, summaries and author biographies.
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Bartleby: An invaluable information and education resource, Bartleby contains thousands of classic works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, plus an extensive reference collection.
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Litline: Litline is an umbrella site for several smaller literary journals, including American Book Review, The Hudson Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Thema.
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Doubletake: The Web site of one of the nation's best known literary and photography journals offers selected stories, photographs, and essays from current and past issues of the print quarterly.
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Granta: The online version of the print journal offers previews of upcoming books from Granta Books publishers in addition to selected articles and article excerpts from Granta.
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The Missouri Review: The online magazine samples the highlights of print issues past and present (and sometimes future), and also houses a fairly active literary discussion forum.
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Internet Public Library: Exactly what its name implies, the IPL holds a huge collection of online reference and research material, plus links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, and more.
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Poetry Daily: Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry, each day offering a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print. Readers can also peruse the archives and subscribe to a weekly email newsletter.
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