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Apr.16.2013
Well, rarely argue against anything which is free (with the possible exception of advice). This is a great way to get readers acquainted with new authors and new work. And if you enjoy and appreciate what you read - then read more. [DE]
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Apr.15.2013
I find these lists interesting and fun, whether or not I agree or disagree. And I always engage in some one-upmanship, as I generally think of other examples to augment any category.
This time it is - surprise - from Kafka.
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself...
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Apr.14.2013
Brush up, say I. [DE]
"There lives more life in one of your fair eyes. Than both your poets can in praise devise." Sonnet 83
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154 Shakespeare Sonnets Adapted as Videos
By Jason Boog
Over the next year, the New York Shakespeare...
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Apr.13.2013
As if using words was not difficult enough in the English language (and it is), there are certain words which actually mean the opposite of what they mean. Or, put another way, they mean the opposite of that they mean. Here is a list of fourteen words which have this push/pull. [DE...
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Apr.12.2013
Here are a selection of beers which were inspired by books and authors. Surely something which can so help alter reality would have a fine Kafka brew (there must be one or more Castle beers). But, if not, let's notify the Czech Republic, and the town of Plzeň (Pilsen).[DE]
Kafka & friend...
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Apr.11.2013
I imagine there is a book or two to be written about this, for both novelists and non-fiction writers. The topic - so real and so grim - is but part of the destruction of war and the disease of power. [DE]
An almanac that once belonged to Arthur Goldschmidt, a Jewish businessman persecuted by the...
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Apr.10.2013
OK, this is kinda fun. Can you tell which books these covers are for? I am not -perhaps - not much of a literary detective. I didn't guess one correctly. [DE]
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Can You Guess These Classic Books From Their Phantom Covers
by Gabe Habash
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Apr.09.2013
If what goes around comes around, then performing an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial in a former INS building will leave the muses spinning. This small theatre occupies the space where people once swore their citizenship allegiance. It is also beneath the cells where those of questionable...
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Apr.08.2013
I've written two novels about fame and being famous and what it is like to have the life. HM the Queen is a *friend* of my main character. His fame has made him wealthy beyond common sense.Thus, I have an interest- not totally ruled by prurient designs - about famous people. And when two...
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Apr.07.2013
I once read a movie poster which said: "Just when you thought it was safe to be dead." I'm guessing it was not a very good film. However, after forty years of supposed rest, the Nobel poet is being unearthed to find out how he died. So much for R.I.P. [DE]
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Apr.06.2013
Has a Kafka trend erupted across the theatres of the world? Are we awaiting a Second Koming? All this plus a musical adaptation currently take place, from New York to London (twice). Kafka adaptations of various sorts. Imaginative! Yes, it must be Kafka. [DE]
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Apr.05.2013
Having just watched Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Lincoln, and remembering him fondly from 3rd Rock from The Sun, I am interested in his call for writers for his new TeeVee *show*. I am, it is true, not totally clear what it is he wants. And I am wary of the collaborative effort which seems a...
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Apr.04.2013
Some folk say that Kafka is always a little off. [DE]
Rubber-limbed physicality ... Kathryn Hunter. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/20/kafka-monkey-theatre-review
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Kafka's Monkey
Place:Off Broadway
Venue:Baryshnikov...
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Apr.03.2013
There are dozens of dozens of lists (there are even lists of lists) of ways to help and assist an author. I figure if you come across just one thing which makes things better for you, you come out ahead. No matter what you might think about the rest of the list. [DE...
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Apr.02.2013
Well, maybe not exactly a musical, but Kafka put to any type of song and musical production is - if I may coin a phrase - Kafkaesque. More so when the fact is taken into consideration that Kafka himself was tone deaf. Perhaps he would have appreciated not being able to appreciate himself. [DE]...
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About Dale
I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
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