On this day in 1973, beloved Chilean poet and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda, died of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
Neruda’s impact on other poets cannot be denied and due to the sheer volume of his work, there is little chance of Neruda ever being…
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On August 3rd in 1924, novelist, Joseph Conrad died at the age of 66 from heart failure. On the same day in 1964, Southern writer, Flannery O’Connor died at the very young age of 39, from complications due to Lupus.
Joseph Conrad is, of course, most well known for his novel Heart of…
I’ve given some thought as to whether or not I should buy a Kindle (I mean they look pretty neat and I do have sufficient funds to purchase one) and like the most lazy, insipid and uncreative of writers (my overuse of adjectives, and fuck, brackets, and doublefuck, commas also point to my…
I’m getting tired of people using these incorrectly. So here’s a quick English lesson.
- Supplement: takes the place of something that’s missing. (e.g. A vitamin supplement is used because you’re not getting the vitamins you need elsewhere; or, I’m using Netflix to supplement traditional TV…
One has claws at the end of its paws and one is a pause at the end of a clause.
Cinderella
C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London/Philadelphia, Heinemann/Lippincott, 1919.Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with silhouette drawings, including 3 double-page in colors and mounted color frontispiece. 10x7¼, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. First Rackham Trade Edition.
B-A Note: Like a parent, I try not to play favorites with my books. But secretly I think this is my favorite Rackham cover art to date.
On July 2nd, in 1961, American writer Ernest Hemingway was found in his Idaho home, with a self inflicted gunshot wound through the head. He was 61 years old and is remembered today as a brilliant writer, a WWI veteran and an acclaimed journalist.
During the twenties, Hemingway became a…
From wikipedia:
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer and academic. He is considered Mexico’s premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he uses elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside his native country, Arreola has served as the literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country’s realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. He published only one novel, La feria (The Fair; 1963).
In English (Amazon links):
Confabulario and Other Inventions
The Fair
