CNN’s Rafael Romo looks back at the life of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xTNaefigzE
It’s not all bad news out there – check out these independent bookstores in New York City
The doors closed Friday on the beautifully vaulted century-old space that houses the Rizzoli Bookstore, only the latest in a long line of midtown book emporia whose steady mass extinction seems to […]
Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt
Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt’s stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the […]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 95
The poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned 95 yesterday. Bird With Two Right Wings And now our government a bird with two right wings flies on from zone to zone while we go on […]
The lonely upbringing of a mass murderer in Norway
The award-winning Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, best known for her account of an Afghan family living under the Taliban, The Bookseller of Kabul, has turned her attention to a subject closer to […]
Interview with Simone de Beauvoir
By Madeleine Gobeil Simone de Beauvoir had introduced me to Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom I had interviewed. But she hesitated about being interviewed herself: “Why should we talk about me? […]
The American poet Bill Knott is dead
Several of Bill Knott’s former colleagues at Emerson College have confirmed that Bill passed away yesterday from complications with surgery. The inventive, subversive, and immensely influential poet was 74. Knott was the […]
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
In 1991 Bret Easton Ellis published his controversial second novel, American Psycho, at age 26. After 53 trips back to press, it has sold more than a million copies in the U.S. […]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Secret Life of Hotels
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn incident has incited lively conversations among industry colleagues as well as among most of my staff at a private company that supplies concierges to hotels, where many of us […]
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography – Language
Using the wonderful words of acclaimed writer, actor and allround know it all (I mean that in the best of ways) Stephen Fry I have created this kinetic typography animation. If you […]
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