MEMBER BLOG TAG: muriel barbery
| Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:41PM | | | | Great Writers, Great Books | Tags: PEN, Muriel Barbery, George Packer, Salwa Al Neimi, Jose Manuel Prieto
| | | | To get into the spirit of New York City my wife and I started at 62nd Street and walked down Broadway to Baruch College at Lexington and 25th. Some things never change. Taxi cabs filled the streets but none of the drivers made gestures or yelled curses at pedestrians crowding into the streets, crossing mid-block or crossing with a cautionary hand flashing in front of their faces. Nevertheless, pedestrians were as thoughtless as ever, perhaps more so.
There were messengers on bicycles but also bicycle lanes so they didn’t weave through both vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Rollerblade messengers were gone and so was dog poop that had made streets in the Big Apple messier than well-kept barnyards. I didn’t hear people talking loudly to themselves... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:27AM | | | | Resonances | Tags: Muriel Barbery, George Packer, Salwa Al Neimi, Jose Manuel Prieto, Esther Allen, Baruch College, Cuore di Tenebra, Conrad, Libro del Te, Okakura Kakuzo, poeta tunisino del Quattrocento, eros, La Prova del Miele, Proust, Recherche, Rex, The Lemoine Affair, La Malora, Beppe Fenoglio
| | | Resonances: Writers on the Great Works. Tuesday, April 28
Muriel Barbery, George Packer, Salwa Al Neimi, Jose Manuel Prieto. Questi gli ospiti ai quali Esther Allen, che insegna qui, al Baruch College, ha chiesto di parlare del libro più importante della loro esperienza di lettori.
La scelta è caduta su questi scrittori (doveva esserci anche Antonio Tabucchi, l’unico che ho letto, ma putroppo ha dato forfait due... | | | | | |
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