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Words Are Like Birds...
Why do we write?
Sep 21
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Elif Shafak
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May Your Words Flow Like Rivers...
Friday evening, at the Royal Geographical Society in London, I had an event with Robert Macfarlane, one of our greatest nature writers and a kindred…
Sep 14
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Elif Shafak
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Letters From Imaginary Friends
There is a lovely story attributed to Franz Kafka that says as much about the author himself as it does about the art of storytelling.
Sep 7
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Elif Shafak
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A Thousand Fibres Connect Us
You don’t always remember clearly where and when your path crossed with a favourite book, but the day I started reading Moby Dick, so many moons ago, is…
Aug 31
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Join Our Silent Revolution
Literature, Love and Homemade Gingerbread Cookies
Aug 24
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Elif Shafak
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Here we are.... and so it goes
Every now and then, I like to look at the drawings of American author Kurt Vonnegut.
Aug 17
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One Candle Is Enough
in the dance of light and dark
Aug 10
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The Role of an Artist & The Role of a Lover
Happy birthday to one of the authors who shaped, moved and inspired me the most: James Baldwin.
Aug 3
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Elif Shafak
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The Rainbows We Cannot See
There is an interesting anecdote about the Russian born American linguist and literary theorist Roman Jakobson who famously could read and write in…
Jul 27
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Are Writers Born to Be Optimists?
Is optimi…
Jul 20
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