My Name is Asher Lev is a story about the battle between a deeply religious man and his artistic son.
The boy’s art is seen as pointless and silly. The boy is faithful, but he can’t deny his talent.
Time passes, and father and son grow slowly apart, with the mother caught between two people she loves.
The [...]
I’m reading Father and Son by Edmund Gosse, and want to recommend it to you.
Father and Son is an autobiography that records a boy’s upbringing in a puritanical household.
The father, Philip Gosse, was one of the blindly faithful, a sombre fellow who recorded his son’s birth with this emotionally-vacant entry in his journal:
E. delivered of [...]
UPDATE: Nyouse is taking a break. Due to a lack of time to spend on Nyouse, we’ve taken it down.
Short version
Myself and Jonathan Markwell – the industrious and philanthropic mastermind behind Inuda, the Skiff and SocialPlume – have created Nyouse (pronounced “news”).
Nyouse is a system that allows ordinary people to alert the press to [...]
I did something very usual. I read half of Ulysses, eventually succumbing to my hatred for the book.
Ulysses is awful. I read half of it, hated every word, and was eventually persuaded to stop reading it. Why read a book that you don’t like?
I know that Ulysses is full of jokes and clever references and [...]
