Mark Twain famously expressed his opinion that kindness is something that binds: ‘it is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see
With cricket you have to deal with every ball on its merit. Business decisions are like that, life is like that, you have to wait until it comes at you and sometimes you go on the front foot sometimes you go on the back foot. Former refugee and cricket fan faces ultimate test as tech firm takes ...
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SHE USED TO WORK FOR MITT: ‘She Was a Spy From Day One:’ Trump Assistant Out After Discussing President’s Family with Press.
SHE USED TO WORK FOR MITT: ‘She Was a Spy From Day One:’ Trump Assistant Out After Discussing President’s Family with Press.
How Spain Became A Case Study For The Global Streaming Wars
“Netflix may have been the first to crack the key European market, with locally produced hitMoney Heist, but the streamer is now facing heated competition from the likes of Amazon, HBO, Viacom and local player Movistar, which are all vying for Spanish talent and content.” – The Hollywood Reporter
The World Seems To Be In Love With Long – Really, Really Long – Audiobooks And Book Theatre
War and Peace? Bring it! Every single word of Silas Marner? Amateurs! What about 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes? Bliss! “‘There is an appetite for the epic that has simply surpassed our expectations,’ says Celia De Wolff, who has produced and directed a marathon adaptation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, to be broadcast over three days” in Britain. “Event radio like this gives the audience a sense of achievement.” – The Observer (UK)
Banksy’s Famous Brexit Mural Is Painted Over
“The side of a building that had borne a famous painting of a worker chipping away one of the golden stars from the European Union’s flag — symbolizing Britain’s impending exit from the bloc — was covered in white paint Monday. Scaffolding had been erected over the weekend at the building in the southern British port city of Dover.” – Washington Post (AP
An Author Won A Prize For Her Debut Novel, And She Split The Prize With The Other Nominees
Olivia Laing won a £10,000 prize for her novel Crudo over the weekend. But Laing said, in her acceptance speech, “Crudo was written against a kind of selfishness that’s everywhere in the world right now, against an era of walls and borders, winners and losers. Art doesn’t thrive like that and I don’t think people do either. We thrive on community, solidarity and mutual support and as such, and assuming this is agreeable to my fellow authors, I’d like the prize money to be split between us, to nourish as much new work as possible.” – The Guardian (U
Just What Qualifies As A “Millennial Novel”?
“As any digital marketeer with their crosshairs on millennials will tell you, the way we “consume” culture has fragmented. Put in less depressing terms, we have a greater range of representative voices to choose from than in Brett Easton Ellis’s decadent brat-pack days. The aim of publishing now should be to widen that range further.” – The Guardian
Umberto Eco’s Outsized Influence On Popular Culture
Few of the newspaper obituarists seemed to know quite what he had done. He had been involved in something that had changed the way texts are interpreted; but it was not really clear why that was so Earth-shattering. – Times Literary Supplement
Comfort Reading: In Defense Of Returning To The Same Book Over And Over
Rebecca Jennings — who confesses to having read each of the Harry Potter books at least ten times and insists she’s “not advocating for laziness” — points to research on “repeated hedonic experiences” that explains why those repeated experiences are hedonic (that means pleasurable) and, in fact, good for you. – Vox
Dating while dying (NYT).
Fascinating To Contemplate What We Define As “World Literature” (We Read So Little Of It)
“World literature happens when Russian novels remake English literature; when a Turkish writer takes inspiration from a Colombian writer; when Japanese critics review translations of Lebanese poetry. It almost always involves re-interpretation and misunderstanding: a Spanish monk sent to suppress Aztec literature ended up disseminating it instead; subsequently, Aztec hymns envision a Christian God urging revolt against the Spaniards. World literature is also nothing new under the sun.” – Harvard Magazine
Memories of Winston Hill Hotel - From the Archives, 1984: The Milperra bikie massacre
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Fathers Day, 1984, a violent confrontation between two motorcycle clubs
- the Comancheros and the Bandidos - shocked the nation.
