HT Home / Blogs Home > Page Turner / Books / Follow the links. Have fun

This Monday, I have curated some stuff for you. Hope you enjoy the pieces.

Here is Margaret Atwood on George Orwell, and his enduring classic, Animal Farm. “[It] is one of the most spectacular emperor-has-no-clothes books of the 20th century…” Atwood writes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/18/my-hero-george-orwell-atwood?CMP=twt_fd

Here is a classic from the archives of the New Yorker. Truman Capote meets, and writes about Marlon Brando. “I’m supposed to be on a diet,” Brando tells Capote . “But the only things I want to eat are apple pie and stuff like that.”

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1957/11/09/1957_11_09_053_TNY_CARDS_000252812?currentPage=all

And, to sign off, a perceptive, finely nuanced piece by Zadie Smith on the difference between pleasure and joy.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jan/10/joy/

Happy reading.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...