Albums That Never Existed
At 20, Chandler became a reporter. He was an unsuccessful journalist, published reviews and continued writing romantic poetry. Accounting for that time he said, “Of course in those days as now there were clever young men who made a decent living as freelancers for the numerous literary weeklies,…
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Alice Munro, a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. Generally regarded as one of the world’s foremost writers of fiction. Her reputation as a short-story writer is international. As Cynthia Ozick put it, “our Chekhov.” -wikipedia
Alice Munro never meant to be a short-story writer. She’d aimed…
(Source: The Atlantic)
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“In a moving address, Prof Hawking described how his diagnosis with motor neuron disease at 21 had helped transform him from a gifted but lazy student into one of the world’s most eminent academics.
The professor admitted he had worked for just an hour a day while an undergraduate at Oxford, but…
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
