Steel Ruler, taken from Wikipedia
Since I am off tomorrow morning to New York to visit my good friend Chris, I’ll do my best to follow the advice on my blog’s title.
Here are three very short stories written by three writers that have mastered the art of “twittering” way before Twitter was even around.
Walt Whitman (picture from the Library of Congress)
Borges begins his essay entitled “The Other Whitman” with the following lines:
Stravinsky, picture from the Library of Congress
I have been thinking on sharing some of the hidden (or not so hidden) treasures I have seen on YouTube. My first one will be a video of the virtuoso guitar player, Julian Bream, playing the lute (1) for the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky
Aleister Crowley
This is the answer to my previous trivia (What do Led Zeppelin’s guitar player (Jimmy Page), Fernando Pessoa and William Butler Yeats have in common?): (more…)
Kafka (right) with his friend and savior of his manuscripts Max Brod (left). It was Brod who left many of Kafka’s’ manuscripts to his secretary / lover Esther Hoffe. I don’t know who owns the copyright of this picture, so don’t tell anyone I am using it here!
More Kafka expected to come to your local bookstore soon , as Esther Hoffe, the zealous guardian of his never-before-seen manuscripts, dies at age 101. The articles I have read (predictably) hints on the story as being “Kafkaesque”, though it reads more like a thriller to me (come on, don’t force that adjective just because he is involved).
The Guardian runs a good article on this.
What do Led Zeppelin’s guitar player (Jimmy Page), Fernando Pessoa and William Butler Yeats have in common?
The answer on my next blog (or someday)
The person that answers this wins a 13th century version of the Iliad with comments by Dante Alighieri. Just kidding.
The Writer, by the Flemish painter Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667)
There are roughly two opposing views about writing (and art in general): One that deems that anyone should be able (and perhaps encouraged) to produce and show their art, and another one that considers this only promotes the creation of heaps of bad art.
One. A book that has already caused a lot of controversy (even before it came out) in many parts of the world will be published in the US on July the 8th: Dalí & I: The Surreal Story, by Stan Lauryssens. (more…)
Now that the Carrie Bradshaw (the girl played by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City) copycats are writing down their straightforward, in-your-face sex columns everywhere you look at (school newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc) I thought I should say something on one of the few “erotic” writers worth reading: Ho Xuan Huong
Picture taken from Flickr of Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker
Some writers are renowned for their witty use of a black or macabre type of humor, like Vonnegut, Saki and Boris Vian. A lesser known writer, William Goyen (1915-1983), masters such humor with an interesting twist; he can be satirical but extremely humane at the same time. (more…)
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