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– Nicholette Wong has joined the editorial team of Negative Suck as Assistant PR Editor. Visit the publication here.––Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.00
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[More about Eadweard Muybridge here.] Nicholas Royle in The Uncanny (2003) answers: It is usually traced back to 1876, to a man called Boirac who wrote: ‘It has happened that, seeing for the first time a monument, a landscape, a person,…
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Last Saturday after a day in the city, we went to the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park to see an exhibition by the Paris-based French-Algerian artist Philippe Parreno (b. 1964). The exhibition has been getting a lot of attention for its…
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Scene 1 A restaurant. Leeds. J: Can we see the wine list, please? Waitress: Yes, you may. Scene 2 A second-hand bookstore. Central London. Shopkeeper (to me): How may I help you, honey? J: She’s with me. Shopkeeper: Oh I…
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In today’s Guardian, twelve writers write about their favourite short stories. Jeanette Winterson pens a beautiful description of Italo Calvino’s “The Night Driver” (from his 1967 collection t zero). I couldn’t find a link to it so I’m typing it…
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In her hugely enjoyable book, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (first published in 1994 — mine is the Vintage’s 1995 version) the mythographer, novelist and historian Marina Warner answers: The earliest extant version of ‘Cinderella’ to…
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––Read Liu’s “from “Experiencing Death””.––
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SEE MORE PICTURES HERE. When it comes to collecting, I have nothing on Robert Opie. Opie is an avid collector of consumer products and packaging which are on display at The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in Notting Hill.…
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– – From the Hong Kong University Press website: Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature by Eddie Tay Description and Author The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich…
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– Nicolette Wong has joined the editorial team of Dark Chaos as Assistant Editor. Visit the publication here. Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. –
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– Nicolette Wong’s flash fiction “Mirage” is now featured at Dark Chaos. Read it here. Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. –
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–This morning in Hong Kong, the receptionist took this between the MK and Hunghom stations: At this point, the receptionist is dreamily flying, ––
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My friend the graphomaniac bookworm sent me some wonderful pictures and below is one of them. – “This one was taken in Senegal, from inside a taxi, on the road from N’gueniene to Dakar. The colourful, hand-painted vehicle you can…
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Mani Rao‘s Bhagavad Gita: A Translation of the Poem will be out on 12th December, 2010. You can purchase a copy here and read an excerpt here. More information about the book:http://www.autumnhillbooks.org/bhagavad_gita.html – – Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. ––
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–Samuel Johnson in The Rambler (1750) answers: If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of…
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Thursday 9 December, 2010. 10:30am.
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This is a photograph taken by my friend yesterday morning at around half past seven. The illusion of calm before the city entirely awoke: ––
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–My friend took this picture. Be quiet — music is banned. Kowloon Tong, 9:10am At this point, the receptionist is late for work already.––
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–A.D. Nuttall in Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John (1980) answers: Greek tragedy owes its special force to the stratified coexistence of two ethical worlds. The older stratum is one in which men…
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Yesterday, my friend sent me this picture, taken from a moving bus. – –
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong has joined the editorial team of this – a literary webzine in the role of Poetry Editor. Visit the publication here. Ten poems by Nicholas (“The God Box”, “Kiss a Door“, “Skydive“, “What Would You Do…
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––In a discussion of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, Harold Bloom (2004) answers: Since Innocence and Experience are states of the soul through which we pass, neither is a finality, both are necessary, and neither is wholly preferable…
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– Phill Provance’s poem “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches” is now featured in Danse Macabre. – – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2010 and discussed here.…
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– Phill Provance has now joined the Danse Macabre editorial team in the role of Associate Editor. Check out the publication here. – – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was…
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Peter Ackroyd’s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) is a fictional memoir of Wilde, written (supposedly) between 9 August 1900 and his death on 30 November that year. In the book, Wilde writes in a letter to a friend, ‘the…
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– Rumjhum Biswas’s short story “Lovers” is now published in MicroHorror. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. – –
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In The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life (2010), co-written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty (c. 2205-c.1782 BC) when our cosmic environment suddenly changed. Ten suns appeared in…
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Download The Pipettes’s “Santa’s On His Way”! Absolutely free. ––
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I came across this interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Nic Sebastian’s blog Very Like A Whale and was intrigued. In July, Kathleen submitted some poems to us on behalf of her husband, W.F. Lantry. Royston, J and I selected “Rainbow Bridge”…
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