Free eBooks. Bookforum.com / home. The Rumpus.net. Asylum. The Second Pass. MOBYLIVES. Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes | A blog by Mark Athitakis on (mostly) U.S. novelists and short-story writers. Anecdotal Evidence. Bookninja. Blog of a Bookslut. April 20, 2016 Jessa and Ashley, ready to party. The end is nigh, friends! May 2nd will mark the 14th-anniversary, and final, issue of Bookslut. Join us in celebrating the glorious life of our beloved slut with cocktails and stimulating conversation on May 6th, 7 pm at Melville House. We will be serving up Deaths in the Afternoon, aka the Hemingway, for your refreshment, but please feel free to bring supplemental libations, potato chip offerings for Jessa, etc. as the spirit moves you. Friday May 6th 7pmMelville House 46 John St Brooklyn, NY 11201 F to York; A/C to High St. Detail from Luca Signorelli's chapel at Orvieto Cathedral.
The explosion of tempered glass excites a particular blend of fear and fascination, the break propagating at many times the speed of sound, splitting into progressively smaller pieces that jingle and pop and leap at your legs, frozen in mid-step, long after the first boom has ceased to roar down your auditory nerve. April 18, 2016 March 9, 2016 Hey guys. March 6, 2016. The Millions. The Reading Experience 2.0. The Valve - A Literary Organ. Literary Kicks. The Book Bench. April 8, 2014 Slide Show: Kurt Vonnegut’s Whimsical Drawings Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,’s crude, ludic doodles—a beaver, a cobra, an asterisk-anus—are famous from novels like “Breakfast of Champions,” as is the curly-haired self-portrait that doubled as his signature.
But making graphic art was, for Vonnegut, a hobby that extended beyond illustrations for his fiction: he painted seascapes and landscapes on Cape Cod in the nineteen-fifties; felt-tip drawings of abstract faces on discarded pages of manuscripts; and larger, more formal color drawings that he exhibited in a one-man show in Greenwich Village in 1980. Vonnegut described his artwork as a pursuit that liberated him from the oppressive work of writing. What Muriel Spark Saw She loved lightning. To her readers, Dame Muriel Spark arrived aptly named and like a bolt from the blue in 1957, with her first novel, “The Comforters,” published when she was thirty-nine.
April 7, 2014 A Novel Like a Rocket Sergei Dovlatov and the Hearsay of Memory. ReadySteadyBlog « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site. In Simone Weil: An Introduction to her Thought, John Hellman shows that Weil's concept of attention is not simply some kind of effortful application of concentration (Weil: "Most often attention is confused with a kind of muscular effort ...
[a] kind of frowning application") but rather "the link between several aspects of her thought: her ascetic intellectualism, her love for mathematics, her concern for the poor and oppressed, her innovatively focussed politics, and her unusually empathetic sensitivity. " Attention, then, is a complex, compound term with several overlapping concerns. Whilst singularity of focus and uncluttered thought are obviously part of the definition of attention, Weil also says, "Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty and ready to be penetrated by the object. " Our thought, she says, "should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything. " So too for prayer, of course ("prayer consists of attention. The Literary Saloon at the complete review - a literary weblog. Conversational Reading.
Books. Ebooks. 100 Best Novels « Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin. Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. S. Eliot), and “the most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness” (Edmund Wilson). Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan.
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Click here to read more about A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN U.S.A. Parkway High School Summer Reading List. Profile For peter wild: Reviews.