August 16, 2017
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In light of the recent news of Facebook’s robots having created their own language, Candida Moss goes back to the story of decipherment in her story Inside the Deadly Pursuit of Unsolved Languages. It was almost 218 years ago, she … Continue reading
August 10, 2017
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In the essay, The Writers who Defied Soviet Censors, Benjamin Ramm chronicles the story of samizdat, which is really the story of self-publishing in Russia vs state publishing. The author goes back in history to understand how information in the … Continue reading
August 3, 2017
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Has it happened to you that you were once an avid reader but find that now more and more you are just in a hurry and are not reading enough? This is what Philip Yancey talks about in The death … Continue reading
July 27, 2017
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One of the best literary news sites is without a doubt the Guardian Books section. So I thought I would pick a story from this rich repository of essays on books and writing. In Fatal attraction – Writers’ and Artists’ Obsession with the … Continue reading
July 20, 2017
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In her essay called Mother Tongue, Yoojin Grace Wuertz talks about her personal journey and it starts with the Korean songs her mother hums to her child, Emmett, and the meaning of her child’s name in her own language and … Continue reading
July 13, 2017
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Anna Pitoniak, an editor at Random House, talks about what editing taught her about the writing trade. So can an editor write? Pitoniak believes that it was her experience of reading good books and tweaking them that gave her the … Continue reading
July 6, 2017
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Writing a novel takes time. David Ebenbach talks about how it took him twenty-five years to write his first real novel. Though the book actually took two years, he’s referring to how long it took him to get there. “Maybe … Continue reading
June 29, 2017
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Just when you think that nothing more could be written about books, you find a story called How Author Photos Change the Way we Read. This story by Dustin Illingworth speaks about a habit that all readers have of glancing … Continue reading
June 22, 2017
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Have you ever thought that English is not a normal language? John McWhorter, professor of linguistics and American studies at Columbia University, seems to think so. He comes to this conclusion by comparing the Anglo-Saxon language with other languages. Some … Continue reading
June 15, 2017
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Anyone who has read Dostoevsky would be surprised to know about how this writer made his literary beginning. In At the Firing Squad: The Radical Works of a Young Dostoevsky, Matthew James Seidel looks at the books that came before … Continue reading