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“A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the...
We have bookshelves all over our house. And there are books on tabletops, on the corner of the couch, and beside the cereal boxes. But our favorite books typically end up in the living room, on the shelves on either side of the fireplace. On my side (the shelf on the left) are severely dog-eared [...]
Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a Love Novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that was first published in Spanish in 1985, with an English translation released in 1988 by Alfred A. Knopf. This is the story of Florentino Ariza. The novel's most prominent theme suggest that lovesickness is a literal illness, a plague comparable...
The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Margot Kahn, author of Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith. Her entry begins:This summer’s been a strange one. First, it didn’t start acting like summer until the middle of July, right when I had to start teaching creative writing workshops at Richard Hugo House, Seattle’s great literary center. While I wanted to be in
Hola folks...Time for another essay... hope youre being inspired for some future travels in this part of the world...cant tell you enough how great it isCartagenaAbsolutely stunning city like a film set almost horse drawn carriages thickset city walls multi coloured buildings. Restoring a city like this makes it a tourist destination and here was the Hilton the cruise ships and the Ameri
Book lovers in Kerala are in for a treat as the first Kovalam Literary Festival is set to get off to a star-studded start at the sprawling Taj Green Cove on the picturesque Kovalam beach next month.
Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez (born March 6, 1927[1]) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcia Marquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving...
It’s become rather clear that as mayor of Wassilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin only asked about how to remove books from the library, and did not ask for any to be removed. So a search to see the list of books she objected to is fruitless — there has never been such a list. But today I [...]
Like many a plutocrat before him, Carlos Slim (pictured), the Mexican multi-billionaire, appears intent on entering the newspaper business. It was announced today that Slim, who is said to be…
There’s a line from the Atmosphere song “Always Coming Back Home To You” that I like and reference probably too often for my own good. “I swear to God, hip-hop and comic books were my genesis.” It was true when I first heard it and it’s still true. Rap and comics have been two of [...]
Everyone likes lists, not to mention lists of favorites, which is why when you're doing publicity for your book you have to answer questions such as: What's your favorite first sentence in literature? What's your favorite last sentence? It won't...
There's a line from the Atmosphere song "Always Coming Back Home To You" that I like and reference probably too often for my own good. "I swear to God, hip-hop and comic books were my genesis." It was true when I first heard it and it's still true. Rap and comics have been two of [...]
Now here's something we haven't seen before. The Sundance catalog has curated three collections of books, which they are selling together as sets. While we keep our book buying to a minimum and prefe
