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Sunday, August 09, 2015

Authors Guilded, United, And Representing

"I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had, and how I offered you what was left of me ..."
~ Bukowski poem

Congratulations to TaxGrrrl Kelly Phillips Erb. She has ditched tax practice to write on taxes full-time for Forbes.com As they say grrrls just wanna have fun!
Authors Guilded, United, And Representing… Not Authors Techdirt

Tyson - it would be disastrous if Australia cuts long term funding in science

When Ioannis Ikonomou arrived in Brussels as an interpreter, the EU had 12 official languages. He learnt them all - then kept going and now ge can read Cold River in Czech ...
The man who speaks 32 languages – and counting New Statesman 


The subtitle is Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers, and the editor is Elizabeth D. Samet.  Here’s the shocking truth: these really are writings by our greatest thinkers!  Usually I am allergic to the topic of leadership and all the more allergic to edited volumes.  But this book has well chosen excerpts from Thucydides, Cervantes, Borges, Marcus Aurelius, Tolstoy, Milton, Plutarch, and Shakespeare, among many others, and a variety of moderns, including Mandela, Gandhi, Frederick Douglass, and Osip Mandelstam’s poem on Stalin.

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For Yvonne and Michael the holy trinity ;-) 
“When I think of Angela’s Ashes, what I remember most is the way Hong Kong sounded and smelled. The air was muggy, winey, and fishy by late afternoon. Salt blew off the sea. My hostel smelled like cigarette smoke and old newspapers, and the curtains were always closed so that the place sat in a simmering, crowded gloom.”

This new book, by Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, starts with Camus’s The Stranger, and then retells the story from the point of view of the brother of the Arab murder victim.  It’s both commentary on the original and a compelling narrative in its own right.  Like Cold River, the Guardian called it “an instant classic and Michiko Kakutani described it as “stunning.”





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“The biggest issue is still getting noticed … and I suppose the only thing worse than being pirated is not being pirated.”




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