The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck published his novel the The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, shortly after the great depression. It’s set in the time of the dust bowl, where much of the top soil of the great plains, from Texas all the way up to Canada, was blown away after years [...]
I’m currently reading How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton. When talking about how Proust helps to expand the world around us by pointing out the things we tend to miss, he writes the following:
An effect of reading a book which has devoted attention to noticing such faint yet vital tremors is that [...]
I have recently started an account at Tumblr imaginatively entitled The Simulacra Tumblr. Tumblr is similar to a blog, but rather than me writing content, I link things and save quotes and pictures and videos etc.
I started it for two reasons, firstly because I wanted to have a place where I can easily share links to things [...]