nothing in the rulebook
A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!
Author: professorwu
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The importance of poetry, and the innate, natural beauty of it has been acclaimed for generations. JFK wrote that poetry was “the means of saving power from itself, for when power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness…
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Spasming muscles, groans, whispers, licked ears, sweat, bucking, otherwise central zones: if you hear those terms, you know you can be only be reading about one thing: the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, a prize established 25 years ago by the Literary Review. Each year since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured…
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Everywhere you look these days, people seem to be talking about the youth. The youth have it pretty bad. They have sky high rents and miniscule wages because young people don’t vote for neoliberal capitalists, but neoliberal capitalists have all the power. They have to work harder than any previous generation because all the older…
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Giving up five chapters into a book? You’re not alone. Newly published data by Jellybooks shows that 90% of people reading e-books gave up after only five chapters. Jellybooks, a reader analytics company based in London, mined troves of data collected from e-books to discover more about the reading habits of “e-readers”. The company is…
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Celebrated author E.B White once asserted that writers “do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.” Yet the idea of what the true “role” for writers and artists is – or if there even is one – has been debated for centuries. Galileo, for instance, suggested…
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Books from Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk and Kenzaburo Oe are among those longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. The so-called “Man Booker Dozen” of 13 books in contention for the prize has now been made public. It is the first longlist ever to be announced for the Man Booker International Prize. The…
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The 8th March is an important day. It marks the yearly celebration of International Women’s Day – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, and marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. The fight for equality is, of course, not finished just because there’s a day about it…
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In Norway, a thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo. They have been planted for an incredibly special purpose: in 100 years time, they will be used to make the paper for an anthology of books, which will form part of the so-called ‘library of the future’. The Future Library…
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An artistic movement is forming. One that is open to spontaneity, artistic risk, emotional urgency and one which flies against traditional models. Will Eaves’s latest book, The Inevitable Gift Shop, is an example of this movement displayed in written form. We may call it a book at first mention, rather than a novel or a…
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