July 2010
22 posts
June 2010
26 posts
“(…) The scientists demonstrated that the act of remembering changes our...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Memory is Fiction, The Frontal Cortex, June 4, 2010
Literature Map: Plug in Your Favorite Author to... →
I could play connect-the-dots all day.
“I was a voracious reader in grade school, and early on began to question the...”
– Roger Ebert
“Would it be too childish of me to say I want, but I do want: theater, color,...”
– Sylvia Plath
And I do not want to be writing last minute essays in summer!!
Third-Person Limited Omniscient Narrator Blown...
PROVIDENCE, RI—The third-person limited omniscient voice, a narrative mode used to convey a story through the thoughts and senses of a literary character, was reportedly “caught totally off guard” after the main character was unexpectedly killed in the last chapter of the new novel Bertram’s Way.
“Holy shit, I did not see that coming. Did you see that coming?” the disembodied literary device said...
“I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help...”
– Jose Saramago
Scoundrel Clouds - Inge Thomson
So delightfully...
I, Editor Author →
By CHARLES McGRATH WE are a nation of grad students, or that’s what people in the book business seem to be hoping as they race to sell us not only the finished work of famous authors but also the rough drafts.
To compete with Knopf’s new translation of “War and Peace,” by the husband-and-wife team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, for example, HarperCollins has brought out a translation,...
Chess
By Jorge Luis Borges II Faint-hearted king, sly bishop, ruthless queen, Straightforward castle, and deceitful pawn— Over the checkered black and white terrain They seek out and begin their armed campaign. They do not know it is the player’s hand That dominates and guides their destiny. They do not know an adamantine fate Controls their will and lays the battle plan. The player too is captive of...
“Is there or not
the dream I forgot
before dawn.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“And yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Library of Babel”
Book Club Meeting last night focused on Jorge Luis Borges’ short fiction, or rather tried to focus on Borges. We chose The Aleph specifically, but we all got different collections containing The Aleph so there were lots of variety in the pieces...
Travel, it makes you smarter →
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Jonah Lehrer on travel as a basic human desire that makes you smarter, more open-minded, and creative:
When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we’d suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilities … that never would have occurred to us if we’d stayed back on the farm. Furthermore, this more relaxed...
