by | Jul 15, 2020 | Literary News
from The New York Times Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay. By Robert Zaretsky In the summer of 1585, the mayor of Bordeaux learned, from the comfort of his nearby chateau, that the...
by | Jul 14, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Brixton Blog Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize. Judges praised his work, saying: “Few post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political...
by | Jun 15, 2020 | Literary News
from WYSO 91.3 Meet Ohio’s New Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour By JASON REYNOLDS Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter-Seymour says poetry is...
by | Jun 2, 2020 | Literary News
from The New Yorker Pursuit as Happiness By Ernest Hemingway Photo illustration by Ben Giles That year we had planned to fish for marlin off the Cuban coast for a month. The month started the tenth of April and by the tenth of May we had twenty-five marlin and the...
by | May 19, 2020 | Literary News
from The New York Times In a New Collection of Old Stories, Madeleine L’Engle Is Back By Heidi Pitlor According to Madeleine L’Engle, who died in 2007, “You have to write the book that wants to be written.”Credit…Sigrid Estrada In “A Wrinkle in Time,” an...
by | May 18, 2020 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Financial Times Letter: A book on the City of Angels fit for a prince From Lyndon Heal, Madrid, Spain While I wouldn’t challenge Janan Ganesh’s assertion (FT Weekend, April 25) that ‘the seminal book about 20th century LA by a London professor (Los Angeles:...
