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Category Archives: Link Wanderlust

November 8, 2018
by Neelima
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Dystopia @ Link Wanderlust

Dystopian fiction has attained cult status. Take The Handmaid’s Tale, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go. The new-found popularity of these novels reflects the preferences of a readership who are unable to make sense of the grim … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: dystopia, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale | Permalink

November 1, 2018
by Neelima
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Ambient Lit and the Death of Storytelling @ Link Wanderlust

Reading is changing. Have you heard of a trend called Ambient literature? I hadn’t until I came across this story – The immersive new book trend you need to know about by Sarah Shaffi. This new kind of literature takes the … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: ambient literature, storytelling | Permalink

October 25, 2018
by Neelima
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Structure and Writing @ Link Wanderlust

The hardest part about writing a book is organizing the work into something definitive, says Louise Candlish. The structure of the book is based on so many aspects of writing like tense, time, point of view. A story narrated in the first … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: structure | Permalink

October 18, 2018
by Neelima
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Misreading @ Link Wanderlust

Great thinkers are often misunderstood, says Julian Baggini, and this is normal as misreading is usually the case. The author of the essay mentions how Nietzche’s aphorisms have ‘never recovered from the fascist makeover’. You see what you want to … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: fascism, misreading, Nietzche | Permalink

October 11, 2018
by Neelima
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Gritty Reader vs Millenial Reader @ Link Wanderlust

So have you been guilty of trying to read a book completely even if you didn’t want to? That seems to be a common enough offence and one that Katie Heaney talks about in her essay Why It’s So Hard … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: gritty reader, millenials | Permalink

October 4, 2018
by Neelima
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Sailing Writer @ Link Wanderlust

The Atlantic has a lovely series called By Heart which I’ve featured a couple of times here on the blog. Today I came across another gem called E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small. The passage … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: E. B. White, Nicole Chung, sailing | Permalink

September 27, 2018
by Neelima
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Rethinking the Universality of Western Philosophy @ Link Wanderlust

What a western mind may think of philosophy is circumscribed more toward the western philosophy. Philosophies from India and China are ignored when you speak about the study of philosophy in western universities. This is strange for me as an Indian … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: philosophy, western philosophy | Permalink

September 20, 2018
by Neelima
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It’s Not To Be, Shakespeare @ Link Wanderlust

Changing a few words in your conversation could change the way you think, says Mel Schwartz in his article Change a Word, Change Your Life. The words we need to change are not big words in the vocabulary- not nouns or adjectives … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: E-Prime, to be or not to be | Permalink

September 13, 2018
by Neelima
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Freedom of Speech @ Link Wanderlust

I stumbled on an essay by Prasanta Chakravarty that deals with a relevant topic today — that of freedom of expression. Philosophers understood that persecution of free speech was a given and Leo Strauss published a book titled Persecution and the … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: freedom of expression, Levi Strauss, Persecution, Prasanta Chakravarty | Permalink

September 6, 2018
by Neelima
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Reading Self-help and Writing About it @ Link Wanderlust

I guess I’m late to the party but here’s a book deal that everyone’s talking about. It’s for a book called Help Me! by Marriane Power. Her proposition is unique – she has a weakness for self-help books and so … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: Marianne Power, Self help | Permalink

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