Pablo Swift

from BuzzFeed Who Said It: Pablo Neruda Or Taylor Swift? It’s Pablo Neruda’s 109th birthday today! Let’s see how the love poet of yore stacks up against our beloved songstress of modern romance. by Matt Ortile [ click to play Pablo v. Taylor at BuzzFeed...

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...