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A Personal Reading Year in Review, Part Two
By Geo Ong You didn’t think I was done, did you? There’s more. In addition to the categories I’ve covered last week, here are some more reading trends to share with you. The Travelling Writer Travel literature is a mainstay … Continue reading
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Tagged a field guide to getting lost, a walk in the woods, bbc, Bill Bryson, books, bruce chatwin, eadweard muybridge, edmund white, geoff nicholson, gertrude stein, helene hanff, in patagonia, Jack Kerouac, notes on a dirty island, paris, paris france, reading, rebecca solnit, river of shadows, satori in paris, the duchess of bloomsbury street, the flaneur, the lost art of walking, travel literature
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Urchin Belles Lettres
By Geo Ong Belles lettres. You may have heard that term once or twice in your life. Or things like Jimbo Jones is a man of letters. No, that doesn’t mean that Jimbo is a postman or a spelling bee … Continue reading
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Tagged 84 charing cross road, belles lettres, belletrists, boris pasternak, correspondence, e-mails, giacomo casanova, helene hanff, john berge, letters, love letters, marina tsvetayeva, martin luther king jr, poetry, poets, samuel pepys, twinings, virginia woolf, Winston Churchill, writing
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That’s What She Said
A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England … Continue reading
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Tagged 84 charing cross road, books, england, english literature, helene hanff, nonfiction, uk
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