Art & Design &Literature Entropy | 30 Nov 2011
Google celebrates Mark Twain’s 176th birthday today with its latest doodle, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. “Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 22 Jul 2011
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich is one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. Widely read and hugely influential, Rich’s career has spanned four decades.. In our dark times we need poetry more than ever, Eloquent Commentary by Adrienne Rich In “The Defence of Poetry” 1821, Shelley claimed that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”. [...]
Books &Literature Entropy | 20 Jun 2011
On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel Lecture is a resounding tribute to fiction’s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. “We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, [...]
Life &Literature Entropy | 30 May 2011
In the words of Eduardo Malleaan an Argentine essayist and writer “Each man’s destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen resemble what is already in his memory” This post is for my friend Nimesh, a restless incorrigible traveler.. I am sending you postcards from a place where I am not. We’re not tourists, [...]
Literature Entropy | 31 Mar 2011
Czeslaw Milosz Year 2011 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Czeslaw Milosz. Born in Szetejnie, in the heart of the Lithuanian wilderness, he was driven away by the tragic events of the 20th century, living consecutively in Warsaw, Krakow, Paris, and the United States, to return to Poland at the turn of the [...]
Literature Entropy | 02 Dec 2010
“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them”- Leo Tolstoy There are many reasons to think about Tolstoy (1828 -1910) on the centennial of his death. Among them: [...]