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history and imagination

Friday, September 9, 2011

The International Literature Festival Berlin has kicked off with an impressive program of 180 events over 11 days.
Tonight Javier Cercas reads from and talks about his latest book The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination. Read Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ excellent review in n+1.

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Missing someone is like what the wind feels like to itself

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

More things to do when summer is letting you down: Get Mark Leidner’s incredible book of aphorisms entitled the angel in the dream of our hangover, out now via Sator. Here’s three of them: 1) anything worth doing is worth taking your lifetime to do; 2) a question mark, like a glassblown exclamation point, takes [...]

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FIRST READING

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Syliva Plath’s novel The Bell Jar was the first dangerous book that I ever read. This was the book that taught me that I should guard myself against literature, because novels will speak to me directly in the hours before I go to sleep, they will use my own voice, and they may never directly [...]

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making up stories

Saturday, July 23, 2011

We love a good interview, and this one is wonderful. John Gardner was a novelist and critic, but he was also a teacher and a human, in the very best way. His writing about writing is generous, practical and principled. The Paris Review compiled the interview from four separate interviews conducted by Paul F. Ferguson, John [...]

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Your favorite air freshener is New Car.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

You can never get enough lists.

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Unerzählt bleibt die Geschichte der abgewandten Gesichter

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Two weeks back, a few of us had this semi-serious discussion about whether or not art should generally make you think about your own mortality, whether it should sort of transport you to a place that’s indeed a bit closer to that terminal breath – or not. Obviously, we didn’t come to a conclusion that [...]

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Sanctuary

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Sternberg Press is about to launch the new book of Brian Dillon!
Sanctuary is a fiction set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in Northern Europe. The structure, a Catholic seminary built in the 1960s and abandoned twenty years later, embodies the failure of certain ambitions: architectural, civic, and [...]

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BASED IN BERLIN

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The exhibition based in Berlin opens next Tuesday, June 7 at 6 pm, showing the work of some 80 emerging artists who live and work in Berlin. The central exhibition will take place at the studio building in Monbijoupark in Berlin Mitte, offering one of the most amazing views on Berlin from its platform. Starting [...]

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ANGRY OLD LADY

Friday, May 20, 2011

Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize winner and most recently Booker Prize winner, made an elderly lady very angry. 72 year old Carmen Callil was until recently one of three judges who decided who gets awarded the Booker Prize. The passionate decision of the two other judges to award North American writer Philip Roth made her resign [...]

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I would like to be smarter

Thursday, May 12, 2011

I had a conversation last night with a man who is working to develop neuro-enhancers. Do you take them yourself? I asked, casually. I wondered secretly whether the field of neuro-enhancement research was progressing at a faster rate than all the other neurosciences.
He said that he did not. He is happy with the [...]

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