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Revenge of the real
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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For Samuel Johnson in 1755 it is: "A loose sally of the mind; an irregular undigested piece; not a regularly and orderly composition." And if this looks to us like one of Johnson's lexical eccentricities, we're chastened to find Joseph Addison, of all...
Tags: John Coetzee, Kafka, imaginative narratives, lyrical essays, imaginative novels, writes essays, writes students, better example, United Kingdom, London, Novel, J. M. Coetzee, Joan Didion, Nausea, Jonathan Lethem, David Shields
Price novel captures pain, beauty that is Nogales
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility MST (Editor’s Note: Jim Price, a native Nogales son, has published his first novel, “Of People, Poppies & God,” which he says was 50 years in the making. Fellow Nogalian, Thomas Aranda Jr., retired Air Force fighter pilot, attorney, and former Chief...
Tags: New York City, Spices, Symbols, Illegal drug trade, Medicinal plants, Flowers, Poppy, Ambos Nogales, Nogales, Novel, Twin cities, Santa Cruz County Arizona, Nogales International
Google Books deal: Don't expect a library Utopia, but bring it on
Bangkok :: Thailand | 5 days ago
Credibility If we are struck with a burning desire to read, say, Robert Browning’s verse novel The Ring and the Book , we don’t want to have to hunt through our shelves in search of the battered OUP edition that we bought secondhand at university, only to remember,...
Tags: Roger Boyes Tom Gatti, Utopia, Thailand, Bangkok, Google, Library, Publishing, Novel, Google Book Search, Library 2.0, Library and information science
Man Asian literary prize goes to Chinese bestseller
Hong Kong :: China | 5 days ago
Credibility The story of a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge has won celebrated Chinese author Su Tong the Man Asian literary prize . Su, by far the best known of the five shortlisted authors, is...
Tags: literary prize, Communist Party, man asian, asian literary, party official, China, Hong Kong, Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, Entertainment Culture, United States presidential election, Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston, Human Interest, Law Crime, Ilustrado, Man Asian Literary Prize, Miguel Syjuco, Su Tong, Zhang Yimou, Man Booker Prize, Lￃﾼ Jiamin, Novel, Picaresque novel
Review: 'Family Album' by Penelope Lively
Cook :: NE :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility November 15, 2009 BY M.E. Family Album, a new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively, is exquisite. Lively takes a broken-down country manse inhabited by a �70s-era family of nine and offers a moving story without (too many) all-too-familiar...
Tags: Family Album, Cook, Narratology, Point of view, Narrative, Penelope Lively, Novel, Fiction, Style, Narrative mode
Love Crimes
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 9 days ago
Credibility As soon as you finish Paul Auster ’s “Invisible” you want to read it again. And not because, as sometimes with his novels — as with the novels of Georges Perec, one of a handful of other real authors mentioned in the book — you suddenly suspect, at the...
Tags: Paul Auster, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Novel, Epochￃﾩ, Moon Palace, Leviathan, Auster, Unreliable narrator
2Is - a narration of Incest India
Screw you, Chetan! That’s the only way I can meet up my grudge against you. I’m pissed, and crossed too. Yes dude! Because you took the sheen off me with your latest novel “2 states – the story of my marriage”. Unfair; you...
Tags: chetan, 2 states, story, marriage, family, sushovan, novel, india, incest, blood, sex, screw, social, f***
Obama's Half Brother Pens a Book About Abuse
Unbeknownst to the world is one Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo. You will know all about him soon enough. His revelations startle. Going strictly by the moniker Ndesandjo, the businessman, musician is the half brother of the United States President Barack...
Tags: Obama, China, Autobiographical, Jazz, Novel
Richard Castle Unveils New Novel Heat Waves
A best selling author of New York Times, Richard Castle has unveiled his new book, titled “Heat Wave”. Readers can get their copy of the book from Amazon and read its thrilling stories. Ten chapters of the book would be available online at...
Tags: novel
MOVIE REVIEW: THE BOYS ARE BACK AND THEY'RE STEALING YOUR HEART
We are so used to seeing films with a predictable plot line of mother wrangling unruly child or lonely miserable single mother trying to befriend her single child that we forget there are single dads out there, too. However, when we do see them, they...
Tags: THE BOYS ARE BACK, Clive Owen, Scott Hicks, Simon Carr, film, movie, review, Australia, Adelaide, boys, Nicholas McAnulty, George MacKay, Greig Fraser, Hal Lindes, Dire Straits, Jane Campion, adaptation, novel, Laura Fraser
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