The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić is a book of essays written between 1991 and 1996 — that is, during and just after the wars that resulted from the collapse of Yugoslavia.* It is my book from Croatia for the Read The World challenge, although there is a slight awkwardness to that choice. [...]
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21 February 2009 – 11:00 pm
Such, Such Was Eric Blair – The New York Review of Books
'if the neglected [Ford Madox] Ford is sometimes classified as a "writer's writer," Orwell was the very opposite—a kind of nonwriter's writer.'
(del.icio.us tags: GeorgeOrwell essays NYRB )
from The Spectator
10 February 2009 – 6:01 pm
The original Addison and Steele version of The Spectator from 1711, that is, which I downloaded from Project Gutenberg to read on my phone. I thought this was amusing:
As I was walking [in] the Streets about a Fortnight ago, I saw an ordinary Fellow carrying a Cage full of little Birds upon his Shoulder; and as I [...]
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12 November 2008 – 10:00 am
Wine and Water
‘As I wait, a young gentleman receives his book from Special Collections. It comes in a little packet, and when he pulls it out, I can see that it is smaller than his thumbnail. The look on his face, somewhere between surprise and annoyance, is priceless. He tries, momentarily, to read it, but [...]