Shanny BasarCulture 9 ways to live your life multiple times verified_publisherMashable - Chris Taylor"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," wrote Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin in A Dance With Dragons. "The man who never reads lives only one." As someone who has lived and ended than...
Shanny BasarPrince Philip Poet laureate Simon Armitage publishes elegy for Prince Philip verified_publisherThe Guardian - Sian CainSimon Armitage has written a poem to mark the death of Prince Philip, his first to address the royals in his time as poet laureate, saying that the obituaries had taught him that Prince Philip “hated –...
Shanny BasarDespondent Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria Popova“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.” “I mean to...
Shanny BasarPhilip Roth Wrath about Roth | The Booker Prizes thebookerprizes.com A new biography of Philip Roth, winner of the International Booker Prize in 2011, has revealed that the author was a highly-sexed individual, …
Shanny BasarWalt Whitman How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action lithub.com - By Mark Edmundson Walt Whitman did all he could to advance the fortunes of his own book, Leaves of Grass. He reviewed it himself, not once but three times. “An American …
Shanny BasarLatin America 6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think of Fiction lithub.com - By Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones Bruno Lloret’s debut novel Nancy (Two Lines Press, April 2021) tells of the narrator’s girlhood in the dry, dying landscapes of northern Chile. Its …
Shanny BasarKendrick Lamar How Invisible Man paved the way for Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. lithub.com - By Vanessa Willoughby On this day in 1952, Random House published Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The novel is narrated by a nameless Black man living in 1930s America. The …
Shanny Basar Check out the cover for Sally Rooney’s next novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. lithub.com - By Emily Temple Get ready for some discourse! This morning, Faber & Faber revealed the cover for Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, which will be …
Shanny BasarCulture (India) Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children, Forty Years Later lithub.com - By Salman Rushdie The first thing to say on the 40th anniversary of Midnight’s Children is that I’m more than glad it is still finding readers, who are still finding …
Shanny BasarKurt VonnegutThe Fate of Fausto: Oliver Jeffers’s Lovely Painted Fable About the Absurdity of Greed and the Existential Triumph of Enoughness,... verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria PopovaA soulful meditation on the eternal battle between the human animal and its ego, played out on the primordial arena of elemental truth. In his short and lovely poem penned at the end of his life, Kurt...
Shanny BasarAuschwitz Holocaust Survivor Primo Levi on Human Nature, Happiness and Unhappiness, and the Interconnectedness of Our Fates verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria Popova“A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.” “If during the next million generations...
Shanny Basar15th century Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in One Hundred Years of Solitude lithub.com - By Angus Fletcher Change came to Colombia in 1959. For it was then that rebel peasants escaped into the mountain outback of the Andes to found the Marquetalia Republic. …
Shanny BasarLiterature Column: It’s National Poetry Month. Here are 9 good poems to help you make it through life. Chicago Tribune - Mary SchmichPoetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like an old friend....
Shanny BasarShuggie Bain Douglas Stuart on life after winning the Booker Prize standard.co.uk - Katie Law Winning the Booker Prize has changed my entire career. I’m having one of the best years of my life, even though I’ve not left this room,” says …
Shanny Basar This Is How Reading Rewires Your Brain, According to Neuroscience Inc Magazine - Jessica StillmanReading doesn't just cram information into your brain. It changes how your brain works. We all know reading can teach you facts, and knowing the right thing at the right time helps you be more successful....
Shanny BasarPrince Philip ‘He was her king’: what the papers say after Prince Philip’s death verified_publisherThe Guardian - Martin FarrerNewspapers around the world have given Prince Philip a rousing send off, with the Queen’s husband remembered for his loyalty, sense of duty and his occasional politically incorrect comment. The British...
Shanny BasarConspiracies 2021 Orwell Prizes: The Longlists | The Orwell Foundation orwellfoundation.com Friday 09 April 2021 The longlists for The Orwell Prizes 2021 are announced today, Friday 9th April. The books and reporting across the four Orwell …
Shanny BasarWalt Whitman On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman lithub.com - By Mark Edmundson What does it mean to love a book? In particular, what does it mean to love a work of literature—a novel, poem, or play? Does literary love differ …
Shanny BasarList-Worthy An absolutely irrefutable list of the top ten dogs in fiction penguin.co.uk They say dogs are a man’s best friend – and when you look at the starring roles these canine companions play in literature, it feels like never a …
Shanny Basar This beautiful passage from ‘A Start in Life’ by Anita Brookner made me miss libraries: twitter.com
Shanny BasarCattle Larry McMurtry died on March 25th verified_publisherThe Economist HE WAS NO more than three, and a small three at that, when he was given his first pony. The following year he went to his first cattle drive. His …
Shanny BasarLanguage Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World lithub.com - By Damien Bador JRR Tolkien disliked novels that tended toward autobiography, though he did not dispute the fact that an author has no choice but to use his or her …
Shanny BasarThe Brain The Imposition of Meaning: Lessons From J.M. Coetzee About the Humanity of Others lithub.com - By Ben Martin In J.M. Coetzee’s novel Life & Times of Michael K, an unnamed military medical officer broods over his patient, the eponymous Michael K: You are like a …
Shanny BasarAmanda Gorman How Amanda Gorman Became So Much More Than a Literary Star VOGUE.COM - Doreen St. FélixTo listen to Doreen St. Félix read this profile, click the play button below: Deep in Amanda Gorman’s closet sits a doll that may or may not have stolen the facts of her reluctant owner’s life. A month...
Shanny BasarHaruki Murakami Haruki Murakami: 'I've Had All Sorts Of Strange Experiences In My Life' verified_publisherNPR - Petra MayerThe stories in Haruki Murakami's new collection, First Person Singular, have a sort of fractal nature — you're reading a story by a middle-aged Japanese man in which a middle-aged Japanese man is telling...
Shanny BasarCharlie Parker 'Just listening puts a big smile on my face': Haruki Murakami on Charlie Parker penguin.co.uk The musicians featured on the Bird and Diz album were a strange mix to be sure. Dizzy Gillespie and bassist Curley Russell were solid and steady …
Shanny BasarCulture (India) Salman Rushdie on Midnight's Children at 40: 'India is no longer the country of this novel' verified_publisherThe Guardian - Salman RushdieLongevity is the real prize for which writers strive, and it isn’t awarded by any jury. For a book to stand the test of time, to pass successfully down the generations, is uncommon enough to be worth small...
Shanny BasarCulture Gertrude Stein on Writing and Belonging verified_publisherBrain Pickings by Maria Popova“Everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves to tell what is inside themselves.” “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all,”...
Shanny BasarMary Anning The young fossil hunter who transformed Britain’s Jurassic Coast verified_publishernationalgeographic.co.uk Mary Anning and her most important dinosaur finds went unsung, but her legacy now draws travellers to southwest England. If you had lived in Victorian …
