Ruben Steeman has been posting one drawing per day for seven years on his website. When he reached the unbelievable amount of 2,500 drawings he decided to put them all in a book. Despite several publishers telling it would be impossible to print and publish it he wasn\’t put off but remained focused and driven. […]
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While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we\’ll spend the next two weekends revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published September 3, 2011.] We recently read an article over at We Made This in which Nick Hornby writes that “the days of the iconic jacket illustration, the image that
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Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961 Place of birth: Illinois, USA Best thing about him: He is one of the most famous authors of the early 20th-century, while he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Most important book: For Whom the Bell Tolls Interesting fact: In 1921 he moved
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Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub is the 14th and current Dalai Lama, an important monk of the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born on July 6th, 1935 and has been a big advocate for Tibetans, globally, as well as other important issues, such as peace, women\’s rights, the environment and science. In 1989
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Mark Twain (1835-1910) or Samuel Clemens, as his real name was, is considered one of the greatest American writers, called \”the father of American literature\” by Faulkner. An acclaimed humorist, Twain\’s most characteristic works are his two novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, generally accepted as classics of American literature.
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Shakespeare’s life is as full of fiction as his plays are. In fact, historians have taken decades to separate the legends and bawdy stories from fact. Some of the juiciest tales are now debunked, while others are new theories to fill in the holes in his biography. Here are five “to-be-or-not” stories of the bard.
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In this short excerpt from a Q&A as University of Virginia’s first Writer-in-Residence, Faulkner talks about The Sound and the Fury, and why it was his favorite novel. Listen to the full recording here.
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Here’s Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find\” at Vanderbilt University in 1959.
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1. Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. 2. Translation is the art of failure. 3. I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. 4. The comic is the perception of the opposite;
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Anaïs Nin February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 Place of birth: Paris, France Best thing about her: She is one of the finest writers of female erotica. Most important book: Delta of Venus, 1977 Interesting facts: Anais Nin was in therapy with Otto Rank who then became her lover Nin was a friend, and
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