FiveBooks Newsletter 106
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus
a pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
FiveBooks at The Browser
This week on FiveBooks: [5]Wai Chee Dimock talks about Hemingway and
Gertrude Stein in Paris; [6]Philip Mansel transports us to the Levant;
[7]Leah Price considers the history of books and reading; [8]Craig
Brown recommends entertaining diaries; and [9]Carol Dweck reveals the
secret to success.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-mansel-on-levant
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/leah-price-on-history-reading
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-dweck-on-success
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[10]Craig Brown on Diaries and Autobiography
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
Friday July 6
The Private Eye satirist and author recommends five entertaining
published diaries, from Andy Warhol to Harpo Marx – and tells us why
parody is a pickpocket [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
[12]Carol Dweck on Success
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-dweck-on-success
Thursday July 5
Challenge-seeking, resilience and the right attitude towards failure
are key factors in success, says the researcher and author of Mindset,
who tells us about growth versus fixed mindsets, and how to change your
brain [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-dweck-on-success
[14]Leah Price on the History of Reading
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/leah-price-on-history-reading
Wednesday July 4
We can learn about the past not just through what was written but how
it was read. The historian of books tells us about reading aloud in
Roman times, Gutenberg-era marginalia, and Middle Age solutions to
information overload [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/leah-price-on-history-reading
[16]Philip Mansel on The Levant
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-mansel-on-levant
Tuesday July 3
Before the era of nation states, the great Levantine cities of Beirut,
Alexandria and Smyrna experienced what may seem like a golden age, as
the author of Levant explains [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-mansel-on-levant
[18]Wai Chee Dimock on Hemingway in Paris
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
Monday July 2
Paris in the 1920s was a creative melting pot, the haunt of Ernest
Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. The Yale
English professor gives us a feel for what it was like to be there
[19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
[20]Semicolons: A Love Story
Links:
20. http://b.rw/LMvqEb
Ben Dolnick | NYT | 2 July 2012
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites
representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to
college.” So said Kurt Vonnegut. Advice which stuck with Dolnick for
years. But then something changed [21]More like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[22]Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
As CERN claim discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs
boson, we delve behind the news and ask: What is the elusive Higgs
boson? Why does it matter whether it exists? If its discovery is
confirmed, what happens next? [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[24]The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/paris-wife-by-paula-mclain
[25]Wai Chee Dimock says: "A good corrective to the image Hemingway
liked to portray of himself" [26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[27]The Book That Can't Wait
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos/book-cant-wait
How to ensure that people who buy a book read it straightaway? Print it
with disappearing ink. Hmm...
[28]More videos
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[29]Christopher Hitchens, on Bashar al-Assad
Links:
29. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/syrias-torture-archipelago-and-romneys-listless-foreign-policy/2012/07/03/gJQA1MgHLW_blog.html
"Bony-thin and with a scrubby moustache, he looks for all the world
like a cretin impersonating a toothbrush"
[30]More quotes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@prospect_uk Want to go to Stanford? Try the online version.
http://t.co/xJ1AMV0d [32]#browsings [33]More like this
Links:
32. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
33. http://thebrowser.com/browsings