The Guardian
Bowie’s Books and Why Bowie Matters review
5 min · · David Bowie has been canonised, and his cultural enthusiams are obsessed over. John O’Connell and William Collins appreciate his pick’n’mix habits, but have they forgotten the music? · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell
972mag.com
The Mizrahi author whose book Mahmoud Abbas wants to distribute
9 min · · Ishaq Bar-Moshe started writing books in Arabic two decades after he emigrated from Iraq to Israel. It was a radical choice, given that the language aroused deep antipathy in Israel — but Bar-Moshe… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
Two Poems
2 min · · November It’s trueI wanted silencelonged for it butnot this much · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Slate
Conlangers Invent Languages for Science, Pleasure—and the Occasional Hoax
6 min · · What do J.R.R. Tolkien, professional linguists, and a sneaky French teenager all have in common? · Shared by 27, including Esther Schindler, Jennifer Ouellette, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Patti Smith: ‘Reading Mark Twain gave me such anxiety I threw up’
2 min · · The author and musician on Jean Genet, Little Women and crying over Charlotte Brontë · Shared by 40, including Tauno, Rick Powell
T. Greer
A Non-Western Canon: What Would a List of Humanity's 100 Greatest Writers Look Like?
15+ min · · A blog about history, strategy, geopolitics, and the intersections of governance, ecology, demographics, and culture. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130
15+ min · ·
Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.” At that time... · Shared by 23, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson, Alex Barrera, Christopher D. Long
blog.stephsmith.io
Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
15+ min · · Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get… · Shared by 888, including Lynda, LoriBeth, Hampus Jakobsson, Thomas Power, Matthew Turland, Marty Cagan, Ilia Markov, pizza.lottie 🍕, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Ines Bieler, Rick Powell, Michael Musgrove, Igor Varyvoda, Jochen Burkhard, Ceferino Díaz, Neil Hart 💙, Tauno
Fast Company
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram. They may be the future
3 min · · Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way. · Shared by 181, including Charles Adler, Tom Connor, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Joseph Finder, Kevin Kruse, Sue B. The Instagram Expert📲, Jessica Gioglio, Katja Evertz, NY Public Library, Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, John Koetsier, Gianluca Diegoli, Nick Floro, Damien Van Achter, Sprout Social, Fanzo
3quarksdaily.com
Does Language Make Liars of Us All?
9 min · · by Joseph Shieber I want to begin with a parable. There once was an itinerant salesman by the name of Osip, who made his living selling rags and trinkets in the little villages that lay in the… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
The 100 best books of the 21st century
20+ min · · Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000 · Shared by 644, including Jane, John Nosta, Esther Schindler, Richard Dawkins, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Brian Solis, Philipp Laurim, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Daniel Nova, Chris Bertram, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jonathan Kogan, Aamir Raz, Dr Nasima Riazat, Brad Brooks, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Bill Johnston, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages
2 min · · Some languages are spoken more quickly than others, but the rate of information they get across is the same. · Shared by 136, including Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, hiten.eth, Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Liliane Ferrari ™, Tauno, Antonio Vieira Santos, Faik Ersoy, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon
literaryreview.co.uk
Jay Parini - Battle Lines
· For People Who Devour Books Subscribe Today! Sign In Register Help Thursday 22nd August, 2019 · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
9 min · · As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. The author of “1984” would not be surprised. · Shared by 53, including Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Rick Powell, Craig Brown, PhD, Marsha Collier, Liv 😷, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD, Jane, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Esther Schindler
3quarksdaily.com
Tuesday Post
4 min · · You Are Who I Love You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
Don’t Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari review
4 min · · A myth-busting account of how languages emerge, change, and influence the way we think · Shared by 18, including Rick Powell, Jane, Liv 😷