4/28/17 “The Legacy of Robert Pirsig, Upcoming Literary Events, and Paper Connections in a Digital World”
This month is National Poetry Month. If you haven’t had a chance to celebrate, you still have this weekend. Write an Enso Poem, join me at the Bel Air Farmers’ Market Saturday morning, or write your significant other something sweet.
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3/12/17 “The Literary Merits of Tom Clancy, Sara Nović’s Girl At War, and My First (Little) Break As A Writer”
Today in literary history, Tom Clancy was born in 1947 in my home city of Baltimore, MD. It might be a little too easy to write Clancy off as a pulp novelist and ignore his serious contributions to the American canon. But what we have to remember is that even Shakespeare was writing for a popular audience in his own time, which is what made his work so lasting.
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger :: Music Beat Goran “Dula” Raduovic captures the essence of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger in music. The moment you realize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. Aravind Adiga
Read more → Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger :: Part 1 Mike and Dula read Aravind Adiga’s final novel, The White Tiger. Entrepreneurship, rising above your base self, and achieving social nirvana. I am the Light now, but I was born and raised in Darkness. Aravind Adiga
Read more → Between Books: Pulp, The Possibility of an Island, and The Fountainhead Each month, Mike and Dula choose between 3 books to read for the upcoming episodes of Between Pages. This month they discuss Charles Bukowski’s Pulp, Michel Houllebecq’s The Possibility of an Island, and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.
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