Michael Ondaatje
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Best European Fiction 2010: My Series
Fire In The Bones —
Authority: 112
I believe in conversations. And the conversations I always learn the most from are those I have with people who are not too much like me. They may not blow me away (I’m afraid I’m sort of granite-like), they may not change my world (I rather like my world), and I might enjoy them more for me than for them ...1 day ago -
A Word on how to run a great Used Bookstore
NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS —
Authority: 471
After interviewing Yann Martel the other day I stopped by Patrick McGahern Books on Bank Street in Ottawa for a quick browse. Combing the literature section I came across two items that demanded I buy them. First – because I’ve been reading lately about Fine Presses in the 1890s – was Aubrey Beardsley by Robert ...1 week ago -
Congrats to Colum
PEN America —
Authority: 107
Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin , excerpted in PEN America 10: Fear Itself , won the National Book Award for fiction last night. As those who come to the PEN World Voices Festival know, Colum is also a great conversationalist, and he has talked with several writers in our pages. In PEN ...2 weeks ago -
Listening To Ghosts
The House of Pomegranates —
Authority: 107
The curtains in our Aunt Charlotte’s study came from a Victorian funeral parlour , I kid you not, they smell of dust and incense and lilies. Her apartment has taken on a permanent chill now that winter is setting in, and we keep the dusty curtains drawn most of the time just to try and keep in the heat. Elizabeth ...2 weeks ago -
Getting Serious About That Novel: A Dozen Top Writers Share Their Habits
BOOK SA - News —
Authority: 507
Alert! Let’s face it: if you want to be successful, really successful, as a writer, you have to put in the hours. Exactly how you structure this putting in of the hours is up to you, but you still gotta do it. In a terrific piece that has nothing to do with SA Lit but cries out for as wide a readership as possible, ...3 weeks ago -
"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged..."
Annarchy —
Authority: 422
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – ...5 weeks ago
