February 2012
5 posts
John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Speech and His Six... →
Mike Springer, openculture.com
Today is the 110th birthday of writer John Steinbeck, whose great novel of the 1930s, The Grapes of Wrath, gives an eloquent and sympathetic voice to the dispossessed. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literatur…
10 Novels That Will Sharpen Your Mind... →
By Keith Oatley and Ingrid Wickelgren, scientificamerican.com
Novels may be made up, but the emotions they evoke are real. These feelings grow out of our connection to the novel’s characters and the relationships between a protagonist and others in the context of the broader society. As we…
What Is Creative Writing Anyway? →
Stephanie Vanderslice, huffingtonpost.com
We thought we’d share more of what we do in creative writing programs and why we think they’re not the bane of contemporary literature but, rather, good for writers, higher education, and culture.
Hmm..
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lareviewofbooks:
LESLIE S. KLINGER
on the cult of Sherlock Holmes.
Illustration by Frederick Dorr Steele for “The Empty House” Colliers, October 1908
Michael Dirda On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
Princeton University Press, October 2011. 224 pp.
On a recent short plane flight, I read Michael Dirda’s On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling in one sitting. The...
January 2012
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
Why has tumblr not taken out an application for iPad alone? Why do we have to make peace with a 1x stupid app made for iPhone and the lesser mortals?
October 2011
1 post
spill
It is a constant gnawing sensation that seems bent on picking up every tiny morsel of your idled brain. You are there and yet not entirely so. A perennial desire to push yourself harder strikes a discordant chord with the as-yet stifled want of closure. You are wont to either deny it with full vigor and brunt or let it secede your unkempt ambitions.
While you are fighting it with whatever tools...
July 2011
2 posts
3 tags
A hundred rupee note
As he walked down the stairs towards the platform, the hustle that accompanies the sound of the approaching train commenced. While the train hurtled towards its 2 minute stop at Khar, the man dodged a slurry of people going the other way, jumped a couple of steps and running as fast as he could boarded the Virar bound local. It was 5 pm on a moist May evening and as the train left the...
October 2009
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July 2009
16 posts
“Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they...”
– Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), Sleepless in Seattle (via eunichick) (via filmquotes)
“I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales.”
– August Rush (via julie911) (via filmquotes)
“Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear,...”
– Dorothy Thompson (via kari-shma)