Literature Entropy | 01 May 2012
The measure of a museum’s success should not be its ability to represent a state, nation or company, or a particular history. It should be its capacity to reveal the humanity of individuals. Museums – just like novels – can also speak for individuals. The Museum of Innocence is both a novel by Orhan Pamuk [...]
Literature Entropy | 25 Mar 2012
I’m frightened of people who believe in just one story. The advantage of studying literature is that you learn many stories, philosophy, history, etc.. You learn that we have commonalities of strangeness and secrets with our fellow humans. Because of many stories, we are that much more open to otherness. – Stephen Dunn
Literature Entropy | 20 Mar 2012
Speech, don’t hold it against me that I borrow grandiloquent words .. And then undertake the difficulty of making them seem light – Wislawa Szymborska This post is supplication for Anisha my gifted & reticent daughter, urging her to return to writing.. Jhumpa Lahiri sharing her emotional wisdom and consummate artistry as a writer .. [...]
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, [...]