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  • The Non-Existent Knight


    Atisan NovelsAuthority Authority: 103
    1. To be nothing within a closed helmet and armor is Agilulfs predicament quite unlike all the other soldiers who mostly dislike him for being a model one: he "could not know what it was like to shut the eyes, lose consciousness, plunge into emptiness for a few hours and then wake and find oneself the same as ...
    2 days ago
  • 10 Awesome Books for the Readers in Your Life


    FlavorwireAuthority Authority: 697
    Last week, in an effort to ease your holiday shopping, we offered you our list of the 10 best books for non-readers. But what about books for readers? Even if youre a class-A literary nerd, it can be hard to figure out what the other bookworms in your life would like best. To make matters worse, theres no room for ...
    6 days ago
  • If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino


    Books of MeeAuthority Authority: 410
    If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. It started with you , the Reader, going to a bookshop to buy the latest book by Italo Calvino titled If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller. You go back home and start reading. The book starts with new chapter titled If On a ...
    1 week ago
  • Film and Fiction as Partners in an Authors Literary Development (Guest Blogger Jesse Bullington)


    OmnivoraciousAuthority Authority: 619
    After addressing matters relating to history and historical fiction all week I would like to wrap things up today and tomorrow with a couple of posts that relate to other aspects of my writing. Being a writer, I talk a lot about other writers, especially those who have influenced my own writing. I’m surely not the ...
    1 week ago
  • Man Promises Girlfriend $100,000 to Not Use Drugs, Hit Up the Strip Club


    F-ListedAuthority Authority: 594
    …And he’s actually surprised she took him up on the offer! Find out more after the jump.
    1 week ago
  • stung


    the swiss loungeAuthority Authority: 120
    so i was wading my way through an interview with sting on the culture show the other night in which hes wittering on and on about his new folk album, his follow up to his lute album songs form the labyrinth. i have to say im not a sting fan, not from the police days and certainly not anything in between but the lute ...
    1 week ago
  • Do you remember?


    BadaudeAuthority Authority: 456
    OK, a little while ago, I was telling you a story . Then I broke off for an But now Im back, and in colour... You might remember, I was living in the Last Affordable Bedsit in Islingt on, but there was someone I forgot to mention...   Check out my back issues by clicking on A little ...
    1 week ago
  • "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and..."


    La Culte de Baiser Sans FinAuthority Authority: 130
    “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” - Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller ( via dreamsofelectricsheep  : signa )
    1 week ago
  • Reading Roundup, November 2009


    Bill WardAuthority Authority: 111
    N ovember proved an eclectic and productive reading period for me — even if I didn’t get much else done. I started things off with Italian fabulist Italo Calvino’s excellently mesmerizing Invisible Cities , a series of imaginative prose-poem meditations on memory and semiotics wrapped up in a spiraling chapter ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane."


    morgensternAuthority Authority: 556
    “alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.” - italo calvino, da “il...
    3 weeks ago
  • when mathews mentions the written word and the unwritten world...


    airform archivesAuthority Authority: 411
    if, as IC (calvino) said the other night, description is an activity in which the writer can begin to resolve the irreconcilability of the written word and the unwritten world, is there a hierarchy of preferences of things to be described? should one pursue the description of objects that are more and more devoid of ...
    4 weeks ago

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