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