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Sep.21.2012
There is information in this article which I did not know - always a pleasing situation when learning about Kafka. I did not realize that the bulk of his extant manuscripts were given to his nieces by Max Brod and it was they, in turn, who gave them to Oxford University's Bodleian Library. How...
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Sep.20.2012
Ah, the power of the written word. Never forget it.
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Salman Rushdie remembers Havel in his latest book
New York, Sept 19 (CTK) - British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie remembers how former Czechoslovak and Czech President Vaclav Havel wanted to help...
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Sep.15.2012
OK - I would love to see this.
Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
Crossing Borders A 15th-century book showing the Virgin riding a unicorn in this show at the Jewish Museum.
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What Books Said to One Another
‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum...
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Sep.14.2012
"A brilliant, unforgettable debut."
The Times.
"One is thrown ... into the heart of the action, in a state of dread and fascination induced by the dire events, the pristine setting and the perfection of the writing."
Mail & Guardian.
"Cuts to the bone."
GQ South Africa
"Can be reckoned with...
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Sep.13.2012
After reading 9/11 remembrances, I thought, where would I rather be than here and now? A friend mentioned that he was in the Army stationed in Germany in 1956, the year I was born. And I, unthinkingly, replied, "That was a good time to be in Europe." He laughed. "Sure, we just had the Cold War with...
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Sep.12.2012
I've just finished a second major edit on a medieval novel, tentatively entitled Gerbert's Book, about three primary characters, two real, one fictional, living around the turn of the first millennium. Gerbert and Otto are the two real ones, Zosimus the fictional one. The fictional character...
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Sep.06.2012
Well - more or less. There is a recently discovered daguerreotype (what a wonderful word) which is probably a reproduction of Dickinson as an adult. This would be only the second in existence, and quite a find about our fair Belle of Amherst.
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Possible Emily...
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Sep.04.2012
Now is the Time (September - ahhh!) and this is the place -Prague! - for a wonderful vacation. And what (I ask) could make you any happier than the follow in the footsteps of Franz Kafka?It will even make you more happy than Kafka himself, who was actually no great fan of Prague ("The little mother...
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Sep.02.2012
“The world is going to Hell.” We’ve been hearing that for so long, it may seem surprising that we haven’t got there yet, but plenty of people have been there and some would say they still are.
For many folks trying to exist behind the Iron Curtain, everyday life was a kind of Hell. That...
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Sep.01.2012
I like this list immediately because it includes a line from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
The line is: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
I have thought this a superb first line for decades.
Another thing I...
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