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Art v books: the critical double standard | Jonathan Jones
London :: United Kingdom | about 2 hours ago
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a critical double standard We don't rubbish the Booker shortlist, or demand that it should be banned – yet we do when it comes to the Turner prize...A viewer examines Richard Wright's work painting at this year's Turner prize. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty...
Tags: turner prize, United Kingdom, London, Novel, G., Mohsin Hamid, Entertainment Culture, Man Booker Prize
Nicholas Sparks Novels Adapted Into Movies
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility His tales of true romance set in the idyllic small Southern towns make it difficult to put down the books once I start reading them...Two of his novels, Dear John and The Last Song , are scheduled to hit theaters in 2010. Let's take a trip down memory...
Tags: Los Angeles, Novel, Romance novels, Nicholas Sparks (author), The Last Song, films, Dear John, Entertainment Culture
Mexico's Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 4 days ago
Credibility Veteran Mexican poet and novelist Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award for writing in Spanish. Eric Siblin's acclaimed The Cello Suites and Globe writer Ian Brown's memoir of life with a disabled son are...
Tags: José Emilio Pacheco, Jose Emilio Pacheco, cervantes prize, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Spanish literature, Human Interest, Josￃﾩ Emilio Pacheco, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Miguel de Cervantes, Nicanor Parra, Literature, Social Issues, ￃﾁngeles Gonzￃﾡlez-Sinde, Naomi Klein, Jorge Luis Borges, Novel, Fiction, Emilio, Mario Vargas Llosa, Annabel Lyon, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes
New Moon
So I finally saw the new Twilight saga "NEW MOON" and just like the first movie I was very disappointed with the lack of action pack scenes and on the edge of your seat entertainment, now I know these stories focus on the romance between a human and vampire....
Master of suspense again invokes moral clarity
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 5 days ago
Credibility Yes, and the Queen of England said shed had it with servants and fancy carriages and was off to do volunteer work in Somalia. ... You cant write 2,000 words a day for more than three decades and suddenly stop. Because, as King knows perfectly well,...
Tags: moral clarity, Dale Barbara, Jim Rennie, Somalia, Mogadishu, Under the Dome, Stephen King, Novel, Dome, Novels by Stephen King, The Stand
The Big Time Is a Mystery Morpheus Would Approve Of [Blogging The Hugos]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility All the Change World's a stage, and one man in his part plays many times — though Fritz Leiber 's The Big Time is less a time-travel tale and more Agatha Christie-style Matrix , in play form...Rules are what I keep coming back to as I think about this...
Tags: Fritz Leiber, San Francisco, The Big Time, Novel, Forteana, Regeneration, Time Lords, Nehwon, Science Fiction Hall of Fame
A question of books and borders
Havana :: Cuba | 6 days ago
Credibility Cuba is one of the most isolated and singular countries in the world; many writers there are patronised by the state. And yet the question still seems worth asking, if not about the west, then about many non-western countries. German writers in the late...
Tags: Su Tong, Cuba, man asian, Leonardo Padura, asian prize, west, Havana, Chinese literature, Fiction, Novel, Literature, Mo Yan, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, French literature
A tide of green ink: Can literature face the storm of climate change?
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 7 days ago
Credibility Still, the worst-hit location of last week’s record-breaking inundations in Cumbria seemed almost too ominous to be true. No figure has ever done more to bring a loving care for the natural world into the heart of British life than William Wordsworth.
Tags: Ian McEwan, William Wordsworth, Ruth Padel, Robert Macfarlane, Paul Kingsnorth, nature world, John Felstiner, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Environment, Novel, The Prelude, British poetry
Tom Sutcliffe: The joy of a short story
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility In The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined the novel as “a short story padded”...Bierce himself was a short story writer and the entry perhaps betrays a certain testiness at the respective statures of the two forms. Certainly what follows that...
Tags: short story, Ambrose Bierce, United Kingdom, London, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Fiction, Novel, Aphorists, Hippolyte Delaroche
Thoughts on the plight of Borders
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility Our first hit was when a Waterstone's opened opposite us, but somehow we managed to live with that. Then a big Borders opened and that was it – from day one we might as well have locked up. "We manage here through keeping a good range, customer loyalty,...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Waterstone's, Borders, Novel, Bookselling, Entertainment Culture
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