Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Hemingway locales in Cuba: La Floridita, one of the several bars that claim he invented the daiquiri in. (Though this one is the most likely.) The room on the fifth floor of the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he wrote two novels is remarkably small, though the views are great.
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Tags: Cuba, Ernest Hemingway, Havana, Hotel Ambos Mundos, La Floridita, La Habana, writer, writing
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
This is the Cuban villa where Hemingway lived from 1939-1960 and wrote many of his best known novels. It sits high in the town of San Francisco de Paula about half an hour outside Havana, and from the patio you can actually see Havana in the distance, hence the name Finca Vigía or “Lookout Farm.” The villa was discovered by Hemingway’s wife at the time, Martha Gelhorn, who was seeking somewhere spacious for the two of them to live.
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Tags: bullfighting posters, Castro, chest, Cojimar, Cuba, Ernest Hemingway, finca, Finca la Vigía, furniture, Havana, Hemingway's villa, La Habana, La Terazza, machismo, novelist, Papa, The Old Man and the Sea, villa, writing, writing desk
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Most people have probably seen this video, but it’s worth watching again. Dave Eggers won the 2008 TED Prize for his education and literacy work with kids, and in this entertaining acceptance speech he provides a brief history of his project. He’s the founder of the unbelievably successful Once Upon A School program which offers free drop-in tutoring centres for kids.
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Tags: architecture, author, Brooklyn, children, Dave Eggers, democracy, design, education, favourite, form, function, literacy, Los Angeles, McSweeney's, New York, Once Upon A School, publishing, San Francisco, social service, volunteer, writing
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Apologies to non-Canadian readers, but I need to address our national broadcaster. Dear CBC, Canadians need much more Seán Cullen on CBC radio, and much less Stuart McLean. Why do we have to wait until summer to listen to Simply Seán on the radio? Why only in the summer, CBC? What is the logic of giving us the oily, faux-down-home Stuart McLean all year, and the droll, off-offbeat Seán Cullen only in the summer?
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Tags: anti-intellectualism, art, artists, Canadian, Canlit, CBC, CBC radio, comedy, contemporary art, culture, cuts to arts funding, Hop it Stephen Harper, literacy, literature, Open Book, Radio One, Robertson Davies, Sean Cullen, video, visual art, wealth, writer's, writing, youtube
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
This writing studio somehow comes as no suprise. James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Dahl’s disturbing adult stories were written in this cramped, somewhat decrepit room. From The New York Times Magazine, 2006. Roald Dahl died in 1990; the house and studio are now a museum.
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Tags: art, artist, literary, New York Times, Roald Dahl, studio, writer, writer's, writing
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