Are you an author who has just completed writing a book? After your book has been written and edited, you may be ready to start approaching publishers. If you are like most authors, there is a good chance that you will send your book manuscript to a number of publishing companies. After all, the more…
To read Zola is to be plunged into a world of passion and sensation: a world of corruption and greed. France in the period of the Second Empire (1852-1870) is, in Zola’s eyes, a dynamic society weakened by decadence, corruption and sexual promiscuity. Time and again in his Rougon-Marquart he returns to this issue, finding […]
– Acaba de salir y llegar a nuestro país una edición de The Cantos de Ezra Pound (Sexto Piso, España) que se presenta como la más completa hasta ahora en nuestro idioma. Las dos anteriormente publicadas en México (Mortiz, 1975 y 1986), hoy agotadas, no incluían los cantos italianos ni los dos textos “sueltos” incorporados a Drafts […]
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein
via #Quote Of The Day – #QualityOfConsciousness — Breakaway Consciousness
In a world where hate seems to be the norm at every street corner, I was a willing “victim” of hating you as well. I remember not caring about your story, only about what others said. But now, after roaming the Earth learning to think for myself, I came to understand what the many said […]
You weren’t my first summer girl— But were the first one to take me over Body and soul (and OK, I admit, it wasn’t all that hard to do) But you are the one from the early days I remember With only a few sharp regrets, since softened by time. But also rises in me a wistful […]
The Decagon House Murders [1987/2015] – ★★1/2 This book, translated from Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong, “was seen as a milestone in detective fiction and the start of the shin honkaku (new orthodox) movement” [1987/2015: 228]. That movement was a revival of the traditional “logical reasoning” detective fiction in Japan that was prevalent in the Golden […]
via Review: The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji — Thoughts on Papyrus
Sister Philadelphia lit the candles in the vestibule and inhaled the rich incense wafting from the church. The pews were empty, and darkness yawned across the altar, its maw stretching up to the crucifix where an impaled Savior grinned arcanely at his dismemberment. The flames drew out the stained glass window and outside, an early […]
Our dramatis personae are: ARGAN, an imaginary invalid. BÉLINE, second wife to ARGAN. ANGÉLIQUE, daughter to ARGAN, in love with CLÉANTE. LOUISON; ARGAN’S young daughter, sister to ANGÉLIQUE. BÉRALDE, brother to ARGAN. CLÉANTE, lover to ANGÉLIQUE. MR. DIAFOIRUS, a physician. THOMAS DIAFOIRUS, his son, in love with ANGÉLIQUE. MR. PURGON, physician to ARGAN. MR. FLEURANT, […]
Fri 05 Apr 2019 – Sat 06 Apr 2019. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m at 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston, Texas. Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity illuminates the daily experiences of five young Muslim Americans who came of age in a post-9/11 society, and who are building their lives in a time of continued fear of and violence […]
My poetry is the voice of all those who are suffering and desperate for help. Mental illnesses are diseases just like any other physical diseases. People don’t have awareness regarding mental health and the victims suffer. I am here to break the stigma and help those in need. Kindly break the chain and raise the […]
I was first introduced to Albert Camus in 2009 when a work colleague lent me The Myth of Sisyphus, when we both had a common interest in books and writing. I’d not heard of him, and such was my French at the time, I couldn’t even pronounce the name properly (Albɛʁ Kæˈmu / or Alber […]
The essayist, novelist and existentialist philosopher Albert Camus was killed in a car accident on January 4, 1960. Camus had been spending the holidays in the south of France at his country house (which he had bought with his Nobel Prize money three years earlier) with his wife and their twin children and his publisher […]
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 