Category: Books
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Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.
Read more: Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.Forgive me, Dante, for I am a sinner. I confess. Do not judge me too harshly, oh Joyce, Tolstoy, Waugh, Saramago, and other greats that collect my dust instead of my readership. I mean well. I feel genuine pleasure and admiration when I muster the will and energy to read your famous words, but that…
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Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and Facilitators
Read more: Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and FacilitatorsWe consider several different scenarios: in bed together, you eat chocolate, you feel happy and guilty, you eat more chocolate there is a deadline for a Valentine’s Day piece, but the market for articles about the fetishization of love is ironically oversaturated, and you panic to find another perspective
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Behind the Classic 2: The Madwoman in the Attic – A Postcolonial Reading of Jane Eyre
Read more: Behind the Classic 2: The Madwoman in the Attic – A Postcolonial Reading of Jane EyreIn the ‘Behind the Classic’ series, editor-in-chief Roselinde takes you on a trip to well-known novels and their less well-known backstories. In this second instalment, she takes you through a postcolonial reading of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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Behind the Classic: Charles Dickens and the Politics of Christmas
Read more: Behind the Classic: Charles Dickens and the Politics of ChristmasIn the new ‘Behind the Classic’ series, editor-in-chief Roselinde takes you on a trip to well-known novels and their less well-known backstories. In this first, seasonally appropriate instalment, she explores the political backdrop of the most famous Christmas story of all: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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The Power of Ordinary People: An Interview with Patrick Ness
Read more: The Power of Ordinary People: An Interview with Patrick NessA few weeks ago, the American Book Center here in Amsterdam organized a Skype interview with Patrick Ness, award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and the soon-to-be-filmed A Monster Calls. The interview, which took place at the ABC Treehouse, mostly focused on Ness’s latest release, The Rest of Us Just Live Here –…
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