Summer is upon us, though the weather may not always be clear about this. There is nothing like being caught unawares in freezing rain wearing nothing but a tank top, shorts and worn flip-flops. This is what summer in Denmark is, and we like it. Summer also means beach reading, and sometimes train and plane [...]
Also tagged Culture, Libary, Literature, Readings, Recommendations, SummerAn experiment, if you’ll allow; how brief can this column be? I am currently in the midst of NAAS 2009 preparations, reading/providing feedback on friends’ BA projects, and making travel arrangements for Lisbon, Rome and Palermo. Hectic, schmectic, there’s always time for literature.
3quarksdaily announces The Quarks: four annual blog prizes, to be handed out on [...]
Lest we forget, this column also encompasses media and culture, despite the name, and therefore I have chosen to spend much of this week’s column talking about stuff other than books.
Book stuff:
Cormac McCarthy has been awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow prize for lifetime achievement in American literature. McCarthy, considered by many the heir to William Faulkner, [...]
When hammering out that small piece on Hunter S. Thompson and Running, posted yesterday, I started thinking about the column he did for ESPN in his last years. Thompson called it a column, ESPN referred to it as a blog. I prefer the word column, for the same reason that there is something romantic about [...]
Also tagged bestseller, Blog, Culture, Literature, Movies, TypewriterWhether one agrees or not, the notion of Queer Theory had a significant impact on literary studies in the eighties and nineties. The most famous (notorious?) book on the subject, though not the most exhaustive, was written by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and published in 1990. Epistemology of the Closet argued, in very broad terms, that [...]
Also tagged Culture, Danish, Literature, Queer Theory, The Da Vinci CodeHi all.
This weekly column is an attempt at creating some sort of loose “index” that’ll make things a bit easier to fathom. I’ll try to put together a brief run-down of interesting matter floating around in the media, this with an emphasis on the literary. What follows is basically a short blurp on each item, [...]