DDavid Tibbettsadded this to Reading And Writing · 10hUrsula K. Le Guin Keep Even Man Where He Belongslareviewofbooks.org - By John W. W. Zeiser IN 1986, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a short, influential essay titled “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” In it, she introduced the anthropologist …
The Guardianadded this to Books · NowFacebook Behind the Screen review – inside the social media sweatshopsThe Guardian - John Naughton“All human life is there” used to be the proudest boast of the (mercifully) defunct News of the World. Like everything else in that organ, it wasn’t true: the NoW specialised in randy vicars, chorus girls,
The Guardianadded this to Books · NowArthur Conan Doyle Reader, I downloaded him: boom times for the literary long listenThe Guardian - Nosheen IqbalFour hours of Beatrix Potter, 10 hours of Marcel Proust, or 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes. How about every single word of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Eliot’s Silas
JJeremy Scotttadded this to n · 15hHistory 10 Absolutely Bizarre Books And Their Historiesboredpanda.com - Jenny Lynn Throughout recorded history, from the first assembling of glyphs and letters to modern-day philosophical treatises, humans have used writing to …
Supernovae The Science of Getting Rich! (1910 Book Excerpt, part 2)spreaker.com - Alanna Fox Starks Intro: Schumann Resonance News for 7 places on Earth. Ascension Symptom Scale today is 98. A Course in Miracles Lesson 70 (acim.org). Discussion on …
The Guardianadded this to Books · 13hGlobal Politics Book clinic: what can I read to look cultured when I go to Cambridge?The Guardian - Johanna Thomas-CorrQ: What books should I read before I start university? I am going to Cambridge and don’t want to seem uncultured compared with all the posh people! Post-A-level student A: Johanna Thomas-Corr, critic writer,
RRodney Allainadded this to Stuff · 4h Magical Maps and Island Utopias: On G. Willow Wilson’s “The Bird King”lareviewofbooks.org - By Rachel Cordasco G. WILLOW WILSON’S latest novel, The Bird King, may be set in 15th-century Spain during the collapse of the last sultanate, but it is in reality a …
Vivian Narvaezadded this to H.U.M.A.N · 5hThe Arts ‘The Last Ocean’ Considers Dementia in All Its UncertaintyThe New York Times - By JOHN WILLIAMSThe first, startling epigraph in Nicci Gerrard’s new book, “The Last Ocean,” comes from Emily Dickinson: “Abyss has no Biographer.” Gerrard sets out to tell the story of dementia, a disease that can appear
Jim Howell Robinsonadded this to Top Notch Magazine · 8hMarvel Comics Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascismThe Guardian - Art SpiegelmanAfter the first Captain America, the German American Bund and America Firsters bombarded the publisher’s offices with hate mail and obscene phone calls Today, Captain America’s most nefarious villain,
Brandon Branchadded this to 🔥🔥🔥 📰 · 10hAudiobooks Too busy? Distracted by your phone? How to love reading againThe GuardianIf reading has given way in your life to social media and other distractions, it can be hard to return to books – but these tips could help In 2019, books are not just a last resort when the wifi is down.
The Guardianadded this to Books · 8hAustralia More than 'story, bonking, story': why you've never heard of Australia's best-selling authorsThe Guardian - Calla WahlquistWe were portrayed in the media as a joke; a bunch of frustrated housewives churning out trash to a formula. Anne Gracie, romance author I can actually survive with what I was earning in America; I couldn’t
The Telegraphadded this to Books · 20hAbbey Road The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy, review: 'a mesmerising fever dream'The Telegraph - By Claire AllfreeAlmost exactly halfway through Deborah Levy’s startling eighth novel, a 56-year-old man called Saul Adler, while walking across the pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road, is knocked down by a car driven by
The Guardianadded this to Comment is Free · 23hOpinion (UK) ‘Do black people read?’ What my years in publishing have taught me about diversity in booksThe Guardian - Natalie JeromeIf we feel disconnected from each other, perhaps it starts in this skewed, unrepresentative vision of the world that begins in our books when we are at knee height My daughter, like me, is of mixed heritage.
Los Angeles Review of Booksadded this to LARB Blog · 11hMontgomery, AL A Case for Reparations for Heirs of the Victims of Lynchinglareviewofbooks.org - By Gordon Marino With the rise of Trump, many of us have become resigned to the fact that our political and electoral agendas are essentially set by cable television …
NPRadded this to Most Emailed Stories · 19hCulture Darkness And Beauty Go Hand In Hand In 'Black Light'NPR - Michael SchaubSheila, the narrator of Kimberly King Parson's story "Guts," can't run away from bodies: not her own, not others'. Ever since she started dating Tim, a medical student, "all the sick, broken people in
The Guardianadded this to Books · 20hMigration Suketu Mehta: ‘The migration debate is driven by populists – they can tell a false story well’The Guardian - Sukhdev SandhuI’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness of the average American. Many people who have come here did so to forget history I was standing at the border with my reporter’s notebook, trying
Kris Watsonadded this to Steak · 1hSandwiches Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwichespublishersweekly.com With her trademark self-deprecating humor, writer and broadcaster Earl (My Mad Fat Diary) offers her teenage audience a comprehensive overview of …
The Guardianadded this to Books · 23hMilitary History Trinity by Frank Close review – in pursuit of ‘the spy of the century’The Guardian - Graham FarmeloWinston Churchill believed that scientists should be “on tap, not on top”. During the second world war, he fretted that the ones he had on tap were incorrigible leakers, though he was confident that the
Kimberly Tate-Louieadded this to Books · 12hZayn Malik 9 Autobiographies By British Reality TV Stars That You'll Actually Want To ReadBustle - Lauren Sharkey Celebrity autobiographies are often stereotyped in three key ways. One: that they are never written by the celebrity. Two: that they are always short …
NY Review of Books · 23hEssays Delighting in Ross Gay, One Essay at a Timenybooks.com - Nicole Rudick I put off beginning the poet Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, which was published earlier this year, because I was afraid it would end too quickly. I …
The Guardianadded this to Top Stories · 13hBrontë Family Louise Doughty: ‘I can’t bear anything chicklitty or girly’The Guardian - Hannah BeckermanI remember spending a fair amount of time in wardrobes hoping to get through and see a talking fawn Louise Doughty is a novelist, playwright and journalist. Her 2010 novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted
Literature Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.soundcloud.com Words and Nerds Podcast is an entertaining and conversational podcast that aims to get inside the writer's minds. We discuss books and the social …
The Dallas Morning Newsadded this to Arts · 14hThe Arts Billy Jensen, David Marlett, Kimberly King Parsons among authors on tour Aug. 18-24 in D-FW...dallasnews.com - DallasNews.com Staff Deanna King will sign and sell Twist of Fate at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at Half Price Books, 5803 E. Northwest Highway, Dallas. T.F. Hanlon will sign …
The Guardianadded this to Books · 21hMoney Possessed by Bruce Hood review – why we want more than we needThe Guardian - Steven PooleThe theory that buying experiences such as holidays makes people happier than buying things is true only for the rich There is no shortage of analysis and critique of consumerism, from Karl Marx on “commodity
Coventry Telegraphadded this to What's On · 20hNuneaton Books are being left across Nuneaton and beyond - here's whycoventrytelegraph.net - Claire Harrison Budding bookworms are taking the borough by storm as a 'hide and seek' game with a difference has become the craze of the school summer …
The Guardianadded this to Books · 8hBoxing 'I felt like Mike Tyson': how a novice boxer fell in love with the sweet scienceThe Guardian - Alex McClintockI could tell you that I fell in love with boxing the first time I walked into a gym, but the first boxing gym I ever went to was in point of fact, an Edwardian bandstand. Fritzy was going to train my David
Independent Australiaadded this to Independent Australia · 23hAustralian News BOOK REVIEW: The Good, the Bad and the Unlikelyindependentaustralia.net Keith Van Driel takes a look at a book written by respected political journalist Mungo MacCallum. MUNGO MACCALLUM’s bringing together of the entire …
The Guardianadded this to Top Stories · 22hMillennials Darkly funny, desperate and full of rage: what makes a millennial novel?The Guardian - Olivia SudjicThe millennial mood is suspicious. We aren’t desperate to lionise our writers, perhaps associating hyperbole with previous con jobs All these novels explore alienation and longing alongside questions survival
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPublishing Book Excerpt: A Young Artist Tries to Avoid Being ‘Fake Like Me’flavorwire.com - ArtBooksFilmMusicTV If we learned one thing from this year’s Netflix hit Velvet Buzzsaw, it’s that getting ahead in the contemporary art world can be murder. That idea – …
Los Angeles Review of Books · 13hJazz (Un)happy Partners: On Jazz and Independent Filmlareviewofbooks.org - By Daniel Felsenthal IN BASIL DEARDEN’S 1962 FILM All Night Long, a husband and wife celebrate their first wedding anniversary. The husband is black. The wife is white. …
