FiveBooks Newsletter 90
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: American humourist [5]Andy Borowitz selects
five books to tickle your funny bone; novelist [6]Tim Lott considers
the complicated, and occasionally murderous, relationship betweeen
brothers; translator [7]Rosamund Bartlett recommends Russian short
stories; science historian [8]George Dyson considers the origins of
computing; and more.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-lott-on-brothers
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
Next week, look out for interviews on a diverse range of topics, from
the US intelligence service to Nelson Mandela, why cities are good for
you to a critique of utopia. And in case you missed it, you can
download the first FiveBooks ebook – collecting the best interviews of
2011 – for your Kindle [9]here.
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9. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-of-FiveBooks-2011-ebook/dp/B007GAM6RC/?tag=thebro-21
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[12]Andy Borowitz on Comic Writing
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
Friday March 16
Do you have to be cruel to be comedic? It often helps, says the
bestselling humour writer, who tells us about five novels (and one
presidential contender) that are enough to make anyone laugh
[13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
[14]Tim Lott on Brothers
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-lott-on-brothers
Thursday March 15
The novelist, whose forthcoming book lays bare a dysfunctional
relationship with his brother, tells us about love and rivalry among
siblings – and the dark, even murderous, impulses that can be
engendered [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-lott-on-brothers
[16]George Dyson on the Origins of Computing
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
Wednesday March 14
As we approach the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, science historian
George Dyson looks back at the achievements of wartime code breaking
and the “human computers” who enabled our modern age of iPhones and
laptops [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
[18]Chris Livaccari on Language and Culture of China
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/chris-livaccari-on-language-and-culture-china
Tuesday March 13
China covers a vast territory, and is far more ethnically and
culturally diverse than many outsiders assume. So what does it mean to
be Chinese? [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/chris-livaccari-on-language-and-culture-china
[20]Rosamund Bartlett on Russian Short Stories
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
Monday March 12
In Russia, it’s often fallen to writers to challenge conventions and
speak the truth, says the translator and biographer. She makes a
personal selection of some of the most exhilarating Russian short
fiction [21]Continue reading…
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
[22]Great American Losers
Links:
22. http://b.rw/zSBGct
Elaine Blair | NYRB | 9 March 2012
Postwar novelists—Updike, Mailer—were male triumphalists. Their
successors—Franzen, Shteyngart—have overcorrected. They want women to
like them. Their men are losers. Houllebecq is different. He doesn't
want to be liked [23]More like this
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[24]Mitt Romney
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Slowly, he's clawing his way to the Republican nomination. But what
makes the man who would be president tick? [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[26]The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/queen-spades-and-other-stories-by-alexander-pushkin
[27]Rosamund Bartlett says: "The precision and lucidity of Pushkin’s
language make it read like something written yesterday" [28]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[29]The BBC and Religion
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bbc-and-religion
BBC boss Mark Thompson on policing the boundaries of free speech
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[31]Richard Holloway, on belief
Links:
31. http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/03/holloway-church-life-doubt
"The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is certainty"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@smiler29: How to write faster. Are you a Beethovian or a Mozartian?
http://t.co/3EkkmzWP [34]#browsings [35]More like this
Links:
34. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
35. http://thebrowser.com/browsings