In a pleasant Scottish brogue, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talks about how he started writingSherlock Holmes (“I began to think of turning scientific methods, as it were, onto the work of detection”) and the character’s popularity (“I’ve even had ladies writing to say that they’d be very glad to act as [Holmes’] housekeeper”). Then the […]
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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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Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Apart from their unique personalities and extravagant lives, most of artists shared a common passion, the passion for cats. Alison Nastasia gathered for the first time, a collection of behind-the scenes stories of more than 50 famous artists and their furry friends. The compilation is all included in a book
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Here’s Nabokov talking about his novel Lolita on a 1950s CBC program \”Close Up.” The interview is at the height of the controversy surrounding the book, which was banned due to its theme of child molestation. When asked his intentions in writing it, Nabokov replies: “I don’t wish to touch hearts and I don’t even
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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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Albert Sagan for Art-Sheep Terry Pratchett\’s probably being gloriously welcomed in Discworld since he left planet Earth last month, on a one-way ride with DEATH’s white horse Binky. But his devoted fans in the UK make sure he won’t be forgotten by creating graffiti tributes for Sir Terry. So far, there are two of them,
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In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of Chandler’s voice. Listening to their conversation is like eavesdropping on two master genre writers talk shop.
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Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. Bond. James Bond. Perhaps the most popular reply to the question \”who are you?\”, the man behind the name who takes his vodka martini shaken, not stirred, the man who drives the most beautiful cars in the world and beds also the most beautiful women in
