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[1910 – 1999] – •→http://www.paulbowles.org/ Paul Bowles was born in Queens, New York, in 1910. He began his travels as a teenager, setting off for Paris, telling no one of his plans. In 1930 he visited Morocco for the first time, with Aaron Copland, with whom he was studying music. His early reputation was as a […]
1919-2010
J.D. Salinger‘s classic coming-of-age story portrays one young man’s funny and poignant experiences with life, love, and sex. Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one […]
1918 – 1985
← Read (icon or below) extract from ‘VENUS + X’
PLOT:
Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, […]
•→biography← [1874-1963]
Robert Frost holds a unique and almost isolated position in American letters. «Though his career fully spans the modern period and though it is impossible to speak of him as anything other than a modern poet,» writes James M. Cox, «it is difficult to place […]
¤ Director’s Cut: Underworld by Don DeLillo
For the 60th anniversary of the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, read an excerpt from
Pafko at the Wall ↓ the prologue to DeLillo’s American epic.
Another except from Underworld . . .
We were about thirty miles below the Canadian border […]
An international bestseller since its publication in 1978, The World According to Garp established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This […]
•→ E.E. Cummings _ A poet, playwright, novelist, and painter ⇐
¤ The Enormous Room
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 – 1962), the author of the book, was suspected of treason while volunteering in France during […]
¤ Ray Bradbury ⇓ [1920-2012] Φ «The Veldt« ⇐[song]
A short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as «The World the Children Made» in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. The anthology is a collection of […]
1928 – 1982
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who befriends some […]
1834 – 1902 ◊ The Lady or The Tiger?
⇓ . . . performed by Toyah Wilcox & Robert Fripp – Artwork by Nicholas Roerich.
In the very olden time, there lived a semibarbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbours, were […]
Robert Sheckley ⇐[1928-2005] was a prolific short story writer and one of science fiction’s great humorists. He also wrote several novels, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
∞ A link to his works . . .⇐ ¤ «In a land of clear colours» […]
1890 – 1937 ¤ The Call of Cthulhu. ◊ Call of Cthulhu _ HP Lovecraft ⇓ Audio Book
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide […]
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♥ The Tell-tale Heart
A wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to […]
[1938 – 1988] ¤ Cathedral ←[read] ⇓ Listen
• Plot Overview
The narrator says that his wife’s blind friend, whose wife has just died, is going to spend the night at their house. He is not happy about this visitor and the man’s blindness unsettles him. He explains that his […]
1921 – 1995
←The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith, is the first of five books featuring the con man Tom Ripley. As the story begins, Tom is a twenty-three-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background, but has aspirations to a better life. An accomplished liar and fraudster, […]
1888 – 1959
In Raymond Chandler’s 1949 novel The Little Sister, Philip Marlowe takes on what seems like a fairly routine missing persons case. Orrin Quest was a young man from Manhattan, Kansas who arrived in LA and then disappeared from sight. His sister hires Marlowe to find him. The […]
¤ ‘Brave New World’
←Listen to Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) himself introducing a radio adaptation (in two parts) of his book in 1956, revisiting his predictions in 1931…
«Brave New World» is a fantastic parable about the dehumanization of human beings. In the negative utopia described in my story, man has […]
[1857–1924]
A Polish-born English novelist, master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story longer than conventional short story but shorter than a novel. Some of Conrad’s most acclaimed works have been written in these formats, most notably Heart of Darkness.
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Herman Melville [1819 – 1891]
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Fancy reading this sad Tale of Wall Street? → ⇒
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties…
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(1876 – 1916)→ http://london.sonoma.edu/←
¤ Call of the Wild →
Buck, a physically impressive dog, is living the good life in California when he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. For him, this means pulling a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little […]
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