Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Isak (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change? ... we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
The late Tony Wilson once told me, "I'm not the one who will have his life turned into legend, in the way that happened to Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud. It won't be me. It will be John Cooper Clarke." "Bloody hell," says the poet. That conversation took place 20 years ago, I tell him – when Wilson was still running the Haçienda; years before the release of Control...
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
This month Wendy supplied us with a list of first lines and asks which books we’ve read and which would make it to our tbr list on the basis of the first line. Bold = the books I’ve read Pink = tbr pile 1. Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A novelist and friend of the late (but recently lit-knighted) Roberto Bolaño notes that all this myth building around him is getting to be a bit much. And worse still, the attention is giving a false impression of Latin America. Moya believes that, as the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez began to lose its luster [...]
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I’m not much into magic or magical anything. That eliminates most fantasy writing, a lot of video games and a host of other things. The one exception I do make is the novels and novellas of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the father of Magical Realism. Also, I like the Force and the mystical power that guides [...]
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Seems everyone these days is talking about a "new paradigm". The Wall Street Journal: "Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm" "'We could be looking at a paradigm shift," says [Prince?] Frederic Mishkin, a former Federal Reserve governor now at Columbia University. George Soros : In response to the policy challenges presented by the economic crisis and the...
The Fidra Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
For approximately the 450th time (well, that may be a slight exaggeration) I tried to read more than 50 pages into The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy. Two hours later I woke up with a page-dented cheek and put it back on the bookshelf with a sigh. I’ve done the same with Gabriel García Márquez [...]
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I have received about 20 e-mails from people in Toronto. They are incensed by a memo sent to all churches in the Archdiocese of Toronto It has a requirement that all churches "must implement the changes outlined below" including "Temporarily suspend communion on the tongue". I have written more than once on this issue of (pace Gabriel [...] Post from: WDTPRS Communion in the Time...
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
This is an article by Graziano Freschi, experienced traveller and connoisseur. Cartagena is,without a shadow of doubt, one of the world's most beautiful cities. In addition it benefits from a stunning setting along the Caribbean Sea and weather almost too perfect to be true (sunny and breezy during the day, warm breeze at night). Cartagena's perfectly preserved city centre includes several impressive...
Dick Jones' Patteran Pages (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS Whilst rummaging through my near-complete collection of Mojo magazine prior to the house move, I came across an interview with Chrissie Hynde in the May 2007 issue. Aged 54 and semi-retired, she claims to be leading...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The new issue is finally (FINALLY!) on newsstands, and we’re so excited to talk about it. This month, mental_floss is covering all sorts of things, including exciting new cures for blindness, Crohn’s disease and MS; America’s next top energy source (icy methane bricks mined from the bottom of the ocean); and why Kashmiri men carry [...]
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf : the MFA as an institution within larger state apparatuses Tendencies begins Oct. 29 @ CUNY with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah § Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz § Federal Trade Commission identifies a threat: book bloggers §...
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I have read the novel, The Museum of Innocence, in Turkish last year. In strictly literary terms, this is his weakest novel. However, a very different sort of project intended here. An actual museum has been built in Istanbul and will be opened soon. This book is a novel-catalogue that actual museum and a great [...]
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
When Forbes magazine recently published a list of the most bankable actresses in Hollywood, Naomi Watts was the surprising name at the top. It's a financial magazine, so the list was compiled using a rather dry return-on-investment test. It was calculated that the 41-year-old actress appeared in films that earned $44 (€29) for every buck that she was paid. A list of her recent credits includes...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
When the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe that...
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