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Category Archives: Writing
One reader can make a difference
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, now in its fourth year, is an annual $25,000 cash prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. The award recognizes writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 … Continue reading
“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence.”
“Description of things and atmosphere” from the notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible curve of the world.” “The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked … Continue reading
Nothing New is something new
Earlier this month, the New Yorker magazine published its centennial issue, and in its pages readers will discover something extraordinary: a previously unknown Robert Frost poem. Frost’s biographer, Jay Parini, wrote an essay about the poem, saying it “was found in a retired … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Robert Frost, The New Yorker
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Banned in the USA
The map above comes from from PEN America, which tracks book bans and fights censorship in public schools and libraries across the country. Here’s how they defined a ban: PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, Restaurants, USA, Writing
Tagged book bans, PEN America
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see the horror in the heart of farce
Ihr aber lernet, wie man sieht statt stiert Und handelt, statt zu reden noch und noch. So was hätt einmal fast die Welt regiert! Die Völker wurden seiner Herr, jedoch Dass keiner uns zu früh da triumphiert — Der Schoß … Continue reading
Fifty Years of Travel Tips
You’ve probably run across the popular annual compendiums of long time blogger Kevin Kelly. His year-end posts seem to get widespread coverage which reflects both his sage wisdom and a bit of clever promotion. Kelly is also a serious traveler … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Public Transport, Restaurants, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged blogging, Slow Travel
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Which book do you prefer
Which Book Do You Prefer was created by Aris Catsambas basically and asks visitors to pick their favorite from a pairing of novels – it requests only that you vote if you’ve read both of the books in question, but otherwise … Continue reading
I will make rhapsodies from grains of sleep.
Dorothea Tanning, the Surrealist artist and writer, who made it from the small town of Galesburg, Illinois, to the center of New York’s avant-garde art world, lived until she was 101, but she never got the major museum survey she … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Surrealism
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One word of truth outweighs the world
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Restaurants, Writing
Tagged Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn, Russia
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Travel Between The Pages 