#literature (29 links)
- 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming - The Guardian theguardian.com
In an age of shocking reversals, Yeats’s theory of historical cycles – “day & night, night & day for ever,” as he once put it – rings true. The only consolation the poem offers is the knowledge that, for one reason or another, every generation has felt the same apocalyptic shudder that Yeats did 100 years ago.
- Remembering Iain Banks: a prolific, terrific talent eurogamer.net
I was just thinking about Iain Banks, but then really that happens most months.
Via ryudozen.
- Double Solitude - The New Yorker newyorker.com
Credit Illustration by Antoine Maillard At eighty-seven, I am solitary. I live by myself on one floor of the 1803 farmhouse where my family has lived since the…
- Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn publicdomainreview.org
At the time of his death in 2001 at the age of 57, the German writer W.G. Sebald was cited by many critics as a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.…
- Toast | Pangyrus pangyrus.com
Kyoto’s Kamo River, in English, translates as Duck River. Modern bridges cross the wide, somewhat shallow stream, but a child or intrepid adult can also use a…
- The limits of nature writing | TLS the-tls.co.uk
RICHARD SMYTH Does too much modern nature writing bear ‘the smudges of the writers’ desperate groping for the mot juste ’? A Northern goshawk (Accipiter…
- Edinburgh: the ultimate literary city theguardian.com
- A Reader's Manifesto theatlantic.com
An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose
- The Penguin Blog: In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream thepenguinblog.typepad.com
When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...
- Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed books.guardian.co.uk
A longlist of what are deemed the 50 best film adaptations of all time.
- Book Chat | MetaFilter metafilter.com
Wired for Books HUNDREDS of uncut, behind-the-scenes AUDIO (!) interviews (scroll down) by Don Swain. Douglas Adams, William Burroughs, Joyce Carol Oates, Henny Youngman... to name just a few.
- Italo Calvino sparks obsessions | MetaFilter metafilter.com
"Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it imparts upon its visitors, the way its inhabitants move within, something unseen that hums between the
- Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Genesis books.guardian.co.uk
David Mitchell reveals how his books coagulate slowly in a primordial idea-soup
- Londonist: Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky londonist.com
The serialisation of Patrick Hamilton's Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky trilogy starts tomorrow [2005 04 19] at 9:50pm.
- Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Pulped fictions books.guardian.co.uk
Hollywood couldn't resist Patrick Hamilton's cinematic, darkly sexual work, says Iain Sinclair. But can the films do the originals justice?
3 Parts. Broadcast 9 - 9.50pm on Tuesday 19th, Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st April 2005, BBC FOUR.
- Tales Of The Decongested : Homepage decongested.com
We hope to feature established writers from time to time, but our primary objective is to raise the profile of the short story and to discover exciting new talent in London.
"An open resouce on books: which are great, why, on what subjects, in whose opinion" and "a way to use online shopping to effect change."
- OuLiPo | Metafilter metafilter.com
Originally founded by author Raymond Queneau and mathematical historian Fran‽ois Le Lionnais, this group sought to create and incorporate restrictive techniques and methods into their writing.
- Creation Books creationbooks.com
From Susannah Breslin of invisible / reverse cowgirl fame