After this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, blogger David Dobbs received an audio clip that seized his heart: a 1954 recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his acceptance speech.
Continue reading →Part of my Lit Hit Friday Series, which looks at things literary. A few weeks ago I had a pair of posts about The Great Gatsby — a book I’ve read four or possibly five times now, starting with the obligatory reads in high school and college. Few books offer such richness within such simplicity, […]
Continue reading →This post launches a modest experiment at Neuron Culture: Friday LitHits, where I intend to use most Fridays to indulge and corral musings on writing, reading, and literature. Indulge, here at this blog mostly about science, because in many ways the problems of writing and reading are much the same as those of science. Corral, […]
Continue reading →I’m re-reading The Great Gatsby, and even this fourth or fifth time, it gives a pleasure beyond anything I’d dare hope for. Fitzgerald, who apparently couldn’t control his drinking or much else in his life, exercises complete command here. He creates a sustained lyricism and economy rivaled in the last century only by Nabokov’s Lolita. […]
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