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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 1M ago

In her words: Angelus Novus and Laurie Anderson’s ‘The Dream Before’

"A storm is blowing from Paradise...that...irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 1M ago

Review: Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson

It’s the smallest act that determines the course of events. Everything he has longed for appears before him as a real possibility and, then, just as quickly vanishes.
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 2M ago

In search of dreams in literature

Reblogged from WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones: In search of dreams in literature Films like The Matrix and Inception have brought together many of the philosophical and psychological dimensions of a literary tradition that dates back as far as Homer.  In literature, dreams occur as religious visions,
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 2M ago

Vladimir Nabokov & Lionel Trilling discuss ‘Lolita’

Watch these clips from the 1950s show "Close Up" in which Nabokov tells how he enjoyed breeding Lolita "in his own laboratory" and refers to the novel as "a fruit salad".
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 3M ago

Review: Calories & Corsets by Louise Foxcroft

While Calories & Corsets won’t make you thin, understanding the historical context of dieting helps to divest weight loss of the magical thinking that so often surrounds it.
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 4M ago

Truths about Writers: Ann Beattie

In her new book, Mrs Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, Ann Beattie herself appears in the text: "I hoped to get close to the truth, but my own writerly instincts may have obscured her as much as her own banal pronouncements." Well, if these 'truths' are any example, it's possible...
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 4M ago

In her own voice: Sylvia Plath

Although I've read Plath's poems many times, there is something powerful about hearing them read in the author's own voice. There are many up on YouTube, but here are a few I particularly like.
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 4M ago

Illness, slow time, and the lost art of letter writing

I didn’t need an answer to feel a real connection with the people I loved. It was enough to give them something of myself in a dashed off postcard or a crammed aerogramme or lengthy descriptions of my daily life on several pages of onion skin paper.
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 5M ago

Review: ‘What the Family Needed’ by Steven Amsterdam

What the Family Needed is the second novel for Amsterdam, a worthy follow up to his debut Things We Didn’t See Coming, which won The Age Book of the Year for 2009. It’s a remarkable story, full of imagination and fun. Amsterdam reaches for the delicate web that connects us to each other and sugges
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WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones · 6M ago

Lost in a blue cupboard

The lost war diaries of Marguerite Duras and how blogging makes this impossible today...
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