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Paulo Coelho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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en.wikipedia.org - Paulo Coelho (Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. He is the recipient of n...

The NEA Four Revisited: Crossing the Line with John Fleck

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hyperallergic.com - Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of Hyperallergic interviews with the NEA Four by Alexis Clements. The previous interviewees were Holly Hughes and Karen Finley. Have you ever seen that ...

Joyce Carol Oates: To Marlon Brando In Hell

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port-magazine.com - Because as the widower Paul of Last Tango in Paris you stripped your sick soul bare, in the radiance of disintegration.  Because you were stunned in terror of annihilation yet played the clown, bar...

#CARE4Syria (with tweets) · care · Storify

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storify.com - It’s World Refugee Week. We asked if you had moments to flee your home, what would you take with you? This is what you had to say: Did you find this story interesting? Be the first to like or comment.

ModiBot Mo: DIY Action Figures with 3d Printed accessories by Go Go Dynamo — Kickstarter

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kickstarter.com - We want to change the way you purchase and play with your toys! What you've got is an inspiring tool set that encourages people to create their own fun, hyper-personalized characters and playthings...

Explore – Okay, here’s my advice to you (and young...

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Maria Popova

exp.lore.com - Okay, here’s my advice to you (and young journalists in general): 1. You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it’s medical school or...

Explore – All happy writers are the same, but each...

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exp.lore.com - All happy writers are the same, but each hardworking writer has a train wreck that is perfectly fitted to the task at hand. After all, as every novelist knows, writing a book is a collision between...

Yoko QandA day – Fridays on Twitter & Facebook – latest answers here:

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imaginepeace.com - Adam Speers Cukrowski Is it just a moneymaking exercise when one group of countries arm rebels to fight for freedom…. when another group of countries arm the established regime? … and does that end...

Explore – Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness,...

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exp.lore.com - Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit) Susan Sontag on art, in illustrated diary excerpts, also available as a limited-edition print benefiting A Room of Her Own, a foundation ...

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

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Maria Popova

brainpickings.org - “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with wri...

Italo Calvino on Writing: Insights from 40+ Years of His Newly Released Letters

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brainpickings.org - “One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.” Culled from the 600+ pages of Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (public library) — the same fantastic recently released to...

Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy

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brainpickings.org - Soulful drawings of sorrow and love by the young and insecure artist. In 1961, legendary editor Ursula Norstrom sent young Maurice Sendak an exquisite letter of creative encouragement as he was spi...

Waterlife: Exquisite Illustrations of Marine Creatures Based on Indian Tribal Art

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Maria Popova

brainpickings.org - From walls to paper, or what the eye of the octopus has to do with swans and women’s role in the arts. I’ve been a longtime fan of independent Indian publisher Tara Books, who for the past 16 years...

BACKtuRn | Musings and Smatterings

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repressedsoul.wordpress.com - BACKtuRn June 19, 2013 · by RepressedSoul · in Uncategorized. · Share this: Twitter Facebook Reddit StumbleUpon Digg Google +1 LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Tags: attitude, poem

A Photo-A-Day Journal on Blipfoto :: 19 June 2013

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blipfoto.com - If I were a bird...this is where you'd find me :-) You must be signed in to comment on this journal. If you haven't already, why not start your own journal and be a part of the community? It's free...

How to stay sane

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brainpickings.org - “Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.” “[I] pray to Jesus to preserve my sanity,” Jack Kerouac professed in discussing his writing routine. But ...

The same meaning changes with the words which... • literary jukebox

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literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org - The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Brain Pickings Weekly

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brainpickings.org - Brain Pickings remains ad-free and takes hundreds of hours a month to research and write, and thousands of dollars to sustain. If you find any joy and value in it, please consider becoming a Member...

I know the future is open and unpredictable. My... • literary jukebox

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literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org - I know the future is open and unpredictable. My style, though, is to want to close it — to make it predictable — at least the immediate future (3 months, 6 months, a year) or the longer future with...

Stanley Kubrick on Mortality, the Fear of Flying, and the Purpose of Existence: The 1968 Playboy Interview

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brainpickings.org - Kubrick: The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something ...

Explore – Vintage illustrated anatomy of a horse race...

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exp.lore.com - Vintage illustrated anatomy of a horse race trotter, spotted at New York’s Monticello Raceway.

The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964

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brainpickings.org - The Beatles: iconic craze-starters, tireless tourers, comic book heroes, vintage children’s book protagonists, animation pioneers, and one timelessly photogenic bunch. In 1964, the Fab Four added a...

Explore – There are two very clear indications of real...

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exp.lore.com - There are two very clear indications of real science and real art: the first inner sign is that a scholar or an artist works not for profit, but for sacrifice, for his calling; the second, outer si...

The Beatles in Comics

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brainpickings.org - The Beatles were only together for a decade, yet they remain the most massive and enduring phenomenon in music culture some four decades after their breakup. On the heels of the Fab Four’s final ph...

Explore – Lovely little guerrilla exchange library in the...

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exp.lore.com - Lovely little guerrilla exchange library in the streets of Bogota.

Explore – Bill Moyers Pair with this vintage guide to...

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exp.lore.com - Pair with this vintage guide to creativity and a modern blueprint for transforming your daily creative routine from mundane to marvelous. 

Explore – High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously...

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exp.lore.com - High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously walked between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974 and whose Cheating the Impossible is a must-read, explores the art of making knots in Why ...

Yoko Ono | O Music Awards | A Celebration of Music, Tech, and Fans

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omusicawards.com - From topping dance charts with her EDM hit “Hold Me” to creating artist installations/apps like #smilesfilm (which collects grins from around the world) to sharing amazing snaps on Instagram, Yoko ...

- Logline It!

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logline.it - Posted by phoenixx50 on Jun 20, 2013 in Public | 0 comments

Rebecca T Dickson « Send the Kids Outside WRITE NOW – a Summer Writing Camp for Parents

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rebeccatdickson.com - So, here’s the thing: The kids are out of school and you’re losing your damn mind. Already. Believe me, I know the feeling. (Counts, one… two… Wait, that’s not my kid running around my house. ) It’...

30 Days of Screenplays, Day 18: “North by Northwest”

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gointothestory.blcklst.com - Welcome to June and the series: 30 Days of Screenplays. Because whether you are a novice just starting to learn the craft of screenwriting or someone who has been writing for many years, you should...

Rebecca T Dickson « Summer writing camp signups – Write Now

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rebeccatdickson.com - Parents needs summer camp more than kids. Especially parents who are writers. Case in point: The not-so-little summer camp I launched yesterday is already half full. You heard me. Three of six avai...

What's Jor-El thinking during Man of Steel's Kryptonian Civil War?

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io9.com - Now you can find out. We've got an exclusive excerpt from the new novelization of The Man of Steel, by veteran media tie-in author Greg Cox. Get a look inside Jor-El's head as he outwits General Zo...

10 Screenwriting Tips You Can Learn From THE DARK KNIGHT and MAN OF STEEL - ScriptShadow

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scriptshadow.net - There’s a reason I’m busting out The Dark Knight for this week’s Ten Tips. This weekend I experienced a super-human catastrophe in Man of Steel. And I want to look at an actual well-made superhero ...

Debora Dennis - Scribbling Through Time: 52 Ways to Joy - Start Today

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deboradennis.blogspot.com - 52 Ways to Joy - Start Today  "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose!" It's been said that a journey of a thousand miles begi...

Anacortes Public Library Reading: Hometown Author Event

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justinbog.com - Well, today I’m thinking about short fiction, giving a reading at the local Anacortes Public Library tomorrow night, and the love of darker tales (yes, even with a bit more humor thrown in—life doe...

Guest Posting: Are We Approaching the End?

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reviewzntips.com - The following is a guest post from Brett Lindenberg. More about Brett you can learn at the end of the post!  We are not even four months into 2013, but much has already changed when it comes to gue...

Double Exposure Portraits – Fubiz™

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fubiz.net - The Bulgarian photographer Aneta Ivanova suggests a delicate softness in its clichés using the technique of double exposure. Female bodies and outdoor environments blend and complement to give us a...

Heaven Graphics

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rebelmouse.com - Pricing • Help • Blog • FAQ Privacy Policy • Terms of Service © 2013 RebelMouse Businessmans iPhone 5 case with initials bit.ly/iPhone5CaseFor… NEW: Christmas Baubles (Ornaments) Templates 2 - This...

Mind Control: Breaking spirits and social control

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Electric Literature recommends "Orange" by Tarah Scalzo

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recommendedreading.tumblr.com - “Relationships sometimes have themes,” Tarah Scalzo writes in “Orange.” “The theme to this one has always been driving.” It’s true—for most of the story, an unnamed couple in their mid-twenties dri...

Sam Pink’s Rontel – Electric Literature

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electricliterature.com - Sam Pink’s Rontel, the first novel from innovative publisher Electric Literature, is a love letter to Chicago that’s full of unrequited affection, brimming with contempt and admiration, gratitude a...

15 Cultural Icons on the Pleasures of Coffee – Flavorwire

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flavorwire.com - Artistic coffee addicts the world over were doubtless dismayed to read an article in this week’s New Yorker asserting that their beloved cup of joe might actually be stifling their creativity. Sure...

A World Intact | New Writing

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granta.com - The British Council and Kwani Trust are working with Granta to co-host a Sunday Salon in Nairobi on 23 June from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., featuring readings from Best of Young British Novelists, Nadifa Mo...

Amazon and the CIA, Vivian Gornick on Mary McCarthy, and More | Daily News

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pw.org - Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s...

Is there any virtue in Vice's suicide spread?

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mhpbooks.com - The short answer is no. On Monday, as part of a fiction issue on women writers, Vice published a fashion spread depicting the suicides of well-known authors. Doppelganger models portray Sylvia Plat...

Stacks | New Writing

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granta.com - There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised yourself you will read. They wind up in the most ingenious places – acting as impromptu rests for cups of tea, hold...

The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 – Flavorwire

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flavorwire.com - Ware’s Building Stories was a sensation last year, and with good reason. As the physicality of the book is changing, it’s important to celebrate the writers who push at the boundaries of what’s pos...

The Coolest Fantasy Story You'll Read This Week

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io9.com - Check out this story of a super-assassin versus a magical thief with demonic powers, by up-and-coming fantasy author Django Wexler. Warning: You'll probably be hooked on Wexler's insane "flintlock ...

The Books to Read This Summer - Alexander Nazaryan - The Atlantic Wire

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theatlanticwire.com - So here we are, immodestly telling you what to read. Not because we are secret authoritarians, but because we are convinced that there's something for you in this quirky list of ours. Some of the t...