Jorge Luis Borges
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What I read in 2014: autobiography and other
Here are some more books I read in 2014. Autobiography 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy N Davidson. My first book of the year, started on the plane back from Japan after a family holiday. Cathy N Davidson is an American Academic, and here describes three long stays in Japan and the cultural differences she found there.…
36 Views of Mount Fuji, A death in the family, Cathy N. Davidson, Elie Wiesel, Experience, Fictions, I know why the caged bird sings, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Mark Ellen, Martin Amis, Matt Groening, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maya Angelou, Night, On Writing, Rock Stars Ate My Life, Stephen King, The Big Book of Hell, The World of Perception -
Forking paths and unknown territory
Two books can clink against each other like flints. Tho books from the 1940s produced a spark that has set me thinking about the staleness lurking in contemporary writing. Beguling Borges and his forking paths The first is Fictions (1944) a collection of short fictions by Jorge Louis Borges, which collected the splendidly-titled The Garden of…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 