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Stephen King, author of some 40 terrifying novels plus more than 100 short stories, novellas, screenplays, poems, essays, columns and non-fiction books. But in the epilogue to his latest book, King says he still doesn't really understand the act of writing. Sometimes he sees the words in front of him before he writes them - every dot, every comma. "I don’t even understand why people need stories, or why I - among many others - feel the need to write them. All I know is that the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind and bonding with people who don’t exist seems to be a part of...
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Stephen King, author of some 40 terrifying novels plus more than 100 short stories, novellas, screenplays, poems, essays, columns and non-fiction books. But in the epilogue to his latest book, King says he still doesn't really understand the act of writing. Sometimes he sees the words in front of him before he writes them - every dot, every comma. "I don’t even understand why people need stories, or why I - among many others - feel the need to write them. All I know is that the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind and bonding with people who don’t exist seems to be a part of...
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The headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, a global non-profit promoting the Spanish language and culture named after the "Don Quixote" writer, has been housed in the Caryatid Building since 2006. It was originally constructed in the early years of the 20th century as the grand bank for Banco Español del Río de la Plata on the historic Alcalá street in central Madrid. Today, the original bank vault has been renamed the “Caja de las Letras” and it contains countless treasures, more literary than literal. Rediscovered Caravaggio masterpiece goes on show in Madrid's Prado museumIs it happening ...
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The Gabriel García Library is no ordinary library. From the outside it looks like a huge, white stack of books and that is precisely the idea at the self-styled ‘Cathedral of books.’ Inside, the red spruce finish throughout gives it a clean, airy, feel which helps make it seem like a pleasant place to enjoy books. On the fourth floor, a huge window opens to reveal a large wall of vegetation outside. One woman is sprawled in a hammock enjoying a book, while a child is lolling in a big round straw seat, engrossed in a picture book. It more resembles a beach scene in a holiday resort, than a libr...
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The winner of the international Booker prize is 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Epenbeck is the first German writer to win the award. A tumultuous love story told to the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, it's about a young woman that meets an older, married man on a bus. They begin an intense and passionate affair - until she sleeps with someone else for a night, resulting in emotional fissures that echo the collapse of East Germany. Erpenbeck described it as: ‘A private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole politi...
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Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the photograph covers. All of these are trying to communicate something to you. It’s the publishers' first opportunity to impress upon readers information about genre, themes, similar books, and even the reader’s own age and gender. A good cover can help a book reach its intended audience, while a bad cover might be the reason a new author never gets the opportunity to publish a follow-up. Cannes Film Fest...
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Tall, dazzling and with an unforgettable moustache, Tom Selleck is known to millions as the private detective Thomas Magnum from the television series that made his name famous. Celebrated in the '80s as one of the most attractive men in the world, he played the tanned, laid-back star clad in bright Hawaiian shirts, racing around solving crimes in a red Ferrari. We now know he never intended to become an actor, the Hollywood star tells us in his autobiography "You Never Know," released in early May. "I'd never had the slightest interest in acting. Ever," Selleck writes in the book. "I was very...
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Tall, dazzling and with an unforgettable moustache, Tom Selleck is known to millions as the private detective Thomas Magnum from the television series that made his name famous. Celebrated in the '80s as one of the most attractive men in the world, he played the tanned, laid-back star clad in bright Hawaiian shirts, racing around solving crimes in a red Ferrari. We now know he never intended to become an actor, the Hollywood star tells us in his autobiography "You Never Know," released in early May. "I'd never had the slightest interest in acting. Ever," Selleck writes in the book. "I was very...
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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled "The Consolation of Objects." The title is from a chapter in Pamuk's novel of lost love, "The Museum of Innocence," in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel - published in 2008 - at the same time that he himself was ...
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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled "The Consolation of Objects." The title is from a chapter in Pamuk's novel of lost love, "The Museum of Innocence," in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel - published in 2008 - at the same time that he himself was ...
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