#literature

#literature

1 Which Briton has the most statues erected in their honour? 2 Which parts of the world have no assigned time zones? 3 Whose portrait of Elisabeth Lederer recently sold for $236m? 4 Germany's Isabell Werth is considered the GOAT in what Olympic sport? 5 Which Old English poem commemorates a battle of AD991? 6 What is the oldest university in the Netherlands? 7 Which US rocker died in Bath in 1960? 8 What phase follows a full moon?

Deliberating over the Atlantic 10 list is, in some ways, a test of memory. Does a novel we read in January still thrill us? Does the reportage that impressed us midyear still feel surprising when we turn back to it in the fall? We're asking ourselves, in short, which books have kept our attention, sometimes months after we've first encountered them.

I met John Tottenham in LA because we have the same publisher, Semiotext(e). I was intrigued to read his first novel, Service, because I'm interested in first novels written by middle-aged people. In sport, it's good to be young, but not always in literature. You have to go through some kind of trouble before you can write a book. Service is about a character called Sean - a double of Tottenham - who is in his late forties

It's about the platforms that facilitate it, and how social media diverts attention away from things like reading and toward things that largely don't matter. Josh says it himself: in fairness, short-form content is slightly more engaging than Macbeth quotation flashcards. That's truly worrying. It's true that the education system can and should do better, but I also think we need reminding that young people have always felt alienated from the education system.

But if you talk to people in the publishing industry, you'll also hear a few names that aren't riding high with the bookies, such as Swiss Popliteratur novelist Christian Kracht, whose Eurotrash was longlisted for the International Booker this year. Australian novelist Gerald Murnane has been a perennial bookies' favourite, but if the prize goes to Down Under, some suggest it's more likely to be awarded to Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright instead.

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Pynchon does not spare himself but, unfortunately, he is right. For aficionados only.

Kinga, the protagonist in "A New New Me," is a forty-year-old corporate employee who struggles with the grind of everyday life, facing exhaustion and self-optimizing pressures.

When Theo loses his mother in a museum bombing, the rupture is instant, but the collapse stretches across years. Grief hollows him out and leaves him spiraling without an anchor.

Returning to the old manuscript brings back memories of doubt and obsession, reflecting on a journey that started in advertising in pursuit of creative expression.

Conventional wisdom says that a beach read ought to be light and fun-a book with a pastel cover. But the beach read can be anything you want it to be.

A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers. However, it is challenging to get around to actually reading them.

In "Florida Palms," the story captures a gritty side of Central Florida, a region shaped by the aerospace industry but now facing economic decline.

Sara Byrne navigates her role as a journalist amidst chaos, capturing both the absurdities of war and the profound human suffering in Gaza.

Naomi Stadlen's work tells mothers that their contributions, even when unseen, are valuable. Her bestselling book, What Mothers Do, underscores this message.

I worked with primary school kids who were struggling with home and school life. One little boy, aged seven, had a tough exterior but would listen with rapture during story time.

On a long train trip from Sydney to Melbourne, an older couple handed me a well-thumbed copy of The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton without saying a word.

K.B. Dixon's most recent collection of stories, Artifacts: Irregular Stories (Small, Medium, and Large), was published in Summer 2022, showcasing his storytelling skills.

On August 2, 1921, eight White Sox players were acquitted of charges related to throwing the World Series but were banned for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

The mystery of how Esther died is never solved... we learn she had been intoxicated and wobbly on her feet when last seen at a bar.

Adapting Stephen King stories proves challenging due to the depth of character inner lives. Externalizing their darkest feelings for the screen remains a complex task.

In her early career, Louisa May Alcott began with the title 'Success' for a novel but shifted focus to labor, culminating in the book 'Work: A Story of Experience.'