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The Elitist Allure of Joan Didion by Meghan Daum

Daum of The Atlantic profiles Joan Didion.

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-elitist-allure-of-joan-didion/399320/

#article #the atlantic #joan didion #meghan daum #literature

A Single Creative Intelligence by Philip French

Observer’s seasoned film critic Philip French evaluates the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock.

Link: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1129141.ece

#tls #article #film #philip french #observer #alfred hitchcock #a single creative intelligence

The Quiet Alarm by Andreas Elpidorou

Joining a long rank of exponents of boredom, Elpidorou illustrates in vivid detail why such indolent experience may be of value to the improvements of our lives.

Link: http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/life-without-boredom-would-be-a-nightmare/

#aeon magazine #the quiet alarm #andreas elpidorou #boredom #psychology #philosophy #article

The Key to Rereading by Tim Parks

Parks muses on the benefits of rereading in relation to Riccardo Manzotti’s lock and key theory.

Link: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jul/11/rereading-unlocking-the-mind/

#tim parks #new york review of books #riccardo manzotti #rereading #literature

Nobel Laureate Andre Gide on What It Really Means to Be Original by Maria Popova

At Brainpickings, Popova extracts a passage from Gide’s journal in which he, by referencing Goethe, contemplates the limits of originality and the contiguous relation between an uncultivated originality and banality.

Link: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/04/andre-gide-originality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29

#brainpickings #maria popova #andre gide #originality #goethe #journal #literature

Solitude and Society by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1857/12/solitude-and-society/376145/?single_page=true

"Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal."

#Ralph Waldo Emerson #the atlantic #essay

Illusions by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1857/11/illusions/376144/?single_page=true

"Great is paint [...] God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers."

#ralph waldo emerson #the atlantic #illusions #essay

Chamber of Secrets: The Sorcery of Angela Carter by Marina Warner

Link: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/10/17/chamber-of-secrets-the-sorcery-of-angela-carter/

"Angela Carter made an inspired, marvelous move, for which so many other writers as well as readers will always be indebted to her: she refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new ﬁery liquor that brought them leaping back to life."

#The Paris Review #article #angela carter #literature #marina warner

Back to the Future by Seneca

Link: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/back-to-the-future.php?page=1

"The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain."

#lapham's quarterly #seneca #back to the future #literature #essay #philosophy

Kenneth Tynan on Under Milk Wood

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/28/kenneth-tynan-dylan-thomas-under-milk-wood-observer

"The truth is that all words intended to be spoken gain from the sight of the speaker..."

#kenneth tynan #theatre #dylan thomas #under milk wood #play #the guardian #criticism

The Great Unread by Joseph Luzzi

Link: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/26/the-great-unread/

"The classic that keeps on being read is the book whose situations and themes remain relevant over time—that miracle of interpretive openness that makes us feel as though certain stories, poems, and plays are written with us in mind."

#the great unread #literature #joseph luzzi #The Paris Review

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan, review: 'a fine, packed volume' by Philip Horne

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11047913/The-Selected-Letters-of-Elia-Kazan-review-a-fine-packed-volume.html

"This major American movie director always hated Hollywood. “This place is poison for an artist,” he wrote in 1936. “It’s immensely pleasurable and almost inevitable to begin believing that this toy make believe is the world.”"

#telegraph #philip horne #elia kazan #book review #film #literature

Little People by Jean de la Bruyere

Link: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/little-people.php

"Children are neither for the past nor the future, but enjoy the present, which we rarely do."

#little children #jean de la bruyère #1688 #literature #lapham's quarterly

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