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Writing curves with Kurt Vonnegut
In this short video Kurt Vonnegut illustrates the ‘shapes’ of successful stories by literally plotting them on a graph. » Read on… « The post Writing curves with Kurt Vonnegut appeared first on LibArts...
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Benjamin Woolley talks about Pocahontas
Benjamin Woolley: Pocahontas, the true story Benjamin Woolley will present a guest lecture at The London School of Liberal Arts on 22 July 2011 as part of a short course entitled “Imagining the Past”....
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The Traitor, a short story by Curzio Malaparte
translated by Walter Murch ” … The burial took place the next day … The priest kept himself apart, about fifty feet away. His lips moved, reciting the prayers for the dead – but in silence, out of...
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Bianca Leggett is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck College, University of London, researching the changing depiction of Englishness in contemporary novels. Bianca has developed a flaneur’s appreciation for...
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Ben Marcus and William Gibson on the virtues of futuristic fiction
Exposing the fiction of our immortality Why write about the future when the present is so interesting? Ben Marcus on why American writers are obsessed with apocalypse: “Nothing of the 9/11 attacks even...
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Philip K. Dick and the gnostic visions of 2-3-74
Simon Critchley examines the gnostic content of Philip K. Dick’s post-”golden fish” thought. “Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does...
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Recovery, a good short story by Helen DeWitt
“You worry about these things as a parent. You worry about being an asshole. Either, the kind of asshole who takes his kid overseas and takes the kid to McDonald’s, or the kind of asshole who takes his...
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A passage from Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf animated
“Herman Hesse’s 1927 novel Steppenwolf is a curious mixture of mysticism and existential angst. It tells the story of a strange man who appears one day in an unnamed town and rents an attic apartment....
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Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad
Beyond God and society: A Christmas Murder Mystery with a Kierkegaardian twist By Herselman Hattingh, Published on 28 January 2013 [Spoiler alert: There will be existential spoilers in this article,...
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