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I love traveling and spend a lot of time on the road. In every trip, no matter how short and in every city, no matter how beautiful - I visit the bookshops. Prague was no exception. People fondly recall many things after they return from a trip to Prague –...
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I just read Albert Camus’ "The Plague" - Camus being Camus, I was ready for a slow read , but after part I (the book is divided into five parts), I could hardly put the book down. Consequently, I am done - in the literal sense of the word. But...
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The first sentence of "The Outsider"/"The Stranger" (from the French L’Étranger) is one of the most catching and enigmatic of the first sentences I have read, but what caught me more was the last part of the last sentence of the book.
(...) my last wish was that there sould...Continue reading
In a powerful speech given while accepting the Jerusalem Prize, Haruki Murakami explain his reasons for accepting the award inspite of protests and threats of boycott.
Finally, however, after careful consideration, I made up my mind to come here. One reason for my decision was that all too many people advised...Continue reading
Laura Lippman has selected ten memoirs that celebrate the ordinary life
As a former reporter, I have a pesky allegiance to fact, although I recognize that the fragile nature of memory makes it difficult for most writers to produce uncontestable versions of their lives. I am drawn to stories...Continue reading
The New York Times has a nice article in which Haruki Murakami discusses his childhood and explains his musical inspiration for his writing
I never had any intention of becoming a novelist — at least not until I turned 29. This is absolutely true.Continue reading
Practically everything I know...
14 authors from 12 countries have made it on to Judges’ List of the Man Booker Prize 2009, with seven of the authors being writers in translation. You can find...
Continue readingThe New York Review of Books carried an excerpt from J.M. Coetzee's new novel, Diary of a Bad Year, to be published in January 2008 while The Independent...
Continue readingBooker of Bookers author and staunch secularist Salman Rushdie was knighted by the Queen of England.
Stephen Hawking is said to be writing a children's book, while...
Continue readingChimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins 2007 Orange Prize for her book "Half of a Yellow Sun" while Karen Connelly gets the New Writer award for The Lizard Cage.
Antoine...Continue reading
Tom Wayne of Prospero's Books started a storm by creating a bonfire of second hand books because he didn't have place to store them and other thrift shops and...
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