Search results for “books 2016”
How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
“Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s closer to your own bone when it’s a memoir, but the bone is still the bone.”
How You Spend Your Life: A Cinematic Sum of the Hours, Days, and Years Spent on Mundane Activities
An awakening anatomy of the average life’s two years of boredom, 6 months of watching commercials, 67 days of heartbreak, and 14 minutes of pure joy.
The Eternal Child Inside: Maurice Sendak on Storytelling and Creativity
On the lifelong pleasure of “having your child self intact and alive and something to be proud of.”
Cosmic Solitude: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on How the Prospect of Being Alone in the Universe Can Make Us Better Stewards of Our Humanity
“Perhaps we wouldn’t talk so much nonsense, tell so many lies, if we knew that they were echoing throughout the cosmos…”
André Gide on Growing Happier as We Grow Older and Using Mortality as a Mobilizing Force for Creative Work
“Age cannot manage to empty either sensual pleasure of its attractiveness or the whole world of its charm.”
Iris Murdoch on the Fluidity of Gender and Sexuality: Her Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Brigid Brophy
“It’s snowing (big flakes) and I love you.”
Why Can’t You Remember Your Future? Physicist Paul Davies on the Puzzlement of Why We Experience Time as Linear
The curious question of how and whether we can tell the difference between an experience and the memory of an experience.
Seamus Heaney’s Advice on Life
“The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”
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