Hotel Lambert On Fire

from The West Australian Fire damages landmark Paris mansion By Marion Thibaut, AFP A fire has damaged the landmark 17th-century Hotel Lambert in Paris. The Hotel Lambert mansion in central Paris, a 17th-century architectural jewel with a rich history, was damaged in...

Orwellian Rule Anew

from Shelf Awareness It’s 1984 All Over Again: Orwell’s Book Sales Spike Daily disclosures about America’s surveillance apparatus have sparked renewed interest in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Wall Street Journal reported that...

HENRY MILLER MADE ME DO IT by James Frey

from big think On Writing: Henry Miller Made Me Do It by JAMES FREY I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book.  I couldn’t believe somebody said what he said and lived how he lived and...