February 2012
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Podcast: Bruno Schulz's 'Father's Last Escape' →
I just listened to this month’s fiction podcast from The New Yorker - Nicole Krauss reading this gorgeous story by the late Bruno Schulz. I really shouldn’t have listened to this early morning as I was trying to gear up for a big work day - so beautifully heartbreaking that I just wanted to curl up in a foetal position somewhere and have a little cry.
Do listen to it though!...
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Film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half... →
So excited for this. Adichie is one of my favourite authors. Let’s hope the film adaptation is done well.
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kurungabaa: a journal of literature, history and... →
‘Kurungabaa’ is a Dharawal word for the Australian pelican, a handsome bird with a peculiar way of gliding low over the waves.
I love this beautiful, unusual little journal that celebrates the ocean and the human worlds that emerge on coastlines. If you love lit mags, I thoroughly recommend getting yourself a print copy of kurungabaa.
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Novel fragment featured on Home-For-Writers →
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The Greatest (Fiction) Books of All Time, As Voted... →
Great list … but unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly reflects male authors. It will be wonderful when female literary fiction authors are given equal recognition to male authors. I wonder what a 21st century list will reveal? Will time be enough to change this trend?
Many have argued that the issue of recognition of female literary fiction authors is more deeply structural - that the literary...
Harrell Fletcher's Interviews with Children →
Some of the most amazing things humans have ever said.
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The Turning Land, the Constant Sea: excerpt 2
Little Namu paddles his colourful, boy-sized longboat from the shores of sharply jagged island toward the ever-retreating horizon. He likes to follow the trail of the moon. The destination is not important. Finding a point where the ocean’s ripples light up like a trail of silvery stones, Namu moors. Arms pull his lifeless right leg into position. He can now maneuver his small body to lie atop the...
Excerpt of The Turning Land, the Constant Sea... →
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The Turning Land, the Constant Sea
In the mornings when he journeys back to shore, Namu’s boat is followed. Tracked. Tracked by pulsating mushroom fields of translucent jellyfish. Tracked by swarming spheres of silver-blue carangid fish. Tracked by the golden onslaught of butterflyfish, by the trailing rainbows of fusiliers and pretty pastel clouds of delicate damsel fish. Tracked by the diaphanous silk of scarf octopi, by eels...
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A Clear Midnight
wwnorton:
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars.
-Walt Whitman
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How to Date a Writer →
All about the value in writers setting up dates to write in the company of each other.
Anything is easier than writing. But if you want to write, you’ve got create the conditions that will help you succeed. That writer sitting across from you is also struggling to make their dreams come true. Help each other get there.
My friend P and I are going to have our weekly writing date today -...
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bathos
noun
1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax
2. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness
3. triteness or triviality in style
(Source: dictionary.com)
What a fantastic word! On first reading it doesn’t quite look right, close as it is to ‘pathos’. But having a word for ‘insincere pathos’ is brilliant. I’ll have...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind →
Sounds like an amazing story … and I love that the memoir has been made into a beautifully-illustrated children’s version to spark the imagination and courage of little ones! Definitely would love to share William Kamkwamba’s story with the Ligingi Community Learning Centre in Uganda.
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Murakami's advice to writers: just put in stuff...
Image source: Paperbackgirl
I just listened to a recent Selected Shorts podcast, ‘The Strangeness of Everyday Life: Two by Murakami’ (22 Jan 2012). As I listened to the stories ‘Lederhosen’ and ‘Ice Man’, I couldn’t help but think of Paperbackgirl’s hilarious piechart of recurring Murakami themes. I noted indeed cats, bizarre dream sequences,...
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Wild at Heart: ancestor worship, upside-down trees... →
Could a travel article title possibly appeal to me more??
The Millions' Guide to Litifying Your Tumblr... →
Thanks to these guys, my dashboard has got litified in a big way!
January 2012
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