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One Story’ Names the Top 10 Short Stories of All Time
As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya Rey, the managing editor, explained via e-mail that their choices are in no particular order, so anti-Salingerists are advised to not get all huffy just because JD leads the list. Tanya writes, “Certain authors (e.g., Cheever, Moore, Johnson, Barthleme) were nominated more than once, for different stories, so we tried to choose the most ‘classic’ of those stories. This was not exactly a scientific or objective process.” However, we stand behind the choices because they’re some of our favorites as well.Top 10 Novels of the 2000s | Entertainment | Never Let Me Go | TIME.com
Get this book It’s natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. That’s one reason it takes Kathy, the narrator of Never Let Me Go , so long to twig that the very exclusive English boarding school she attends with her friends Ruth and Tommy is not quite ordinary. No responsible reviewer would reveal the exact nature of the horror that lurks there, but suffice to say that it’s thoroughly horrific. Ishiguro’s readers see the looming shadows before Kathy does, but by then it is far too late.
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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live… (more) ” ― William W. Purkey
by ipresnel The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. A famous author once said that novels are the best way for two human beings to connect with each other.
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The Monica Bird, Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her...
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads.Danteworlds
Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy. The site is structured around a visual representation of Dante's worlds: it shows who and what appear where. Click on regions within each realm (circles of Hell, terraces of Purgatory, spheres of Paradise) to open new pages featuring people and creatures whom the character Dante meets during his journey. Click on individual figures in the regions to view larger images in pop-up windows. Available for each region are explanatory notes, a gallery of artistic images, recordings of significant Italian verses, and study questions--all aimed at enriching the experience of reading Dante's poetic vision of a voyage literally out of this world.
Charles Bukowski, American Author ~
A lot of people wonder, "Where am I?" It's a good question in general, but specifically, right now, you are on the doorstep of the world's premiere Charles Bukowski web site. You are probably here to see manuscripts or search for a poem or story. Maybe you are here to find spiritual enlightenment. We have that too.
Suffice to say I just eat every 12 hours, sleep every 20 hours, masturbate every 8 hours and otherwise just sit on the train and stare ahead without a thought...
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Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
Matthew J. Bruccoli, author and editor of a number of works on F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) bravely set out a few years ago to write a book about the relationship between Fitzgerald and his younger contemporary Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Bruccoli's 1994 book Fitzgerald and Hemingway , A Dangerous Friendship opens on a note that will set the tone for the rest of it: Bruccoli cites Hemingway's famous account in A Moveable Feast of the first time he met Fitzgerald, a meeting that according to Hemingway took place at the Dingo bar in Paris in 1925, and at which Duncan Chaplin, who had pitched for Princeton's baseball team when Fitzgerald was a student there, was present.