Category Archives: Literature
Kerouac’s “Chorus 113″ from Mexico City Blues, recited by Johnny Depp
In 1995, PBS broadcasted a show called The United States of Poetry, featuring poems from Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Czeslaw Milosz and Allen Ginsberg amongst others. Each poem would come with a highly polished and paced video where images would be paired with the voice of people such as Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen or Jimmy Carter.
Depp appeared ……
JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement speech. The fringe benefits of Failure
Joanne “Jo” Rowling, known as J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series ……
Aldus Huxley’s Brave New world BBC 1980 adaptation watch free online
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of ……
George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm movies, watch them free online
George Orwell’s anti totalitarian novel Animal Farm, was almost destroyed during the Nazi bombings of London during the Second World War. Having been rejected by many editors, including TS Elliot, who was working for Faber & Faber at the time, the novel would have to wait until it was finally printed in 1945, and eventually ……
Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses Affair
When writer Salman Rushdie, winner of the Booker price, published his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, he could in no way foresee the consequences that part of his writing, apparently inspired by certain parts of the Quram and the prophet Mohammad, would have in the muslim community, and specifically in those muslims living in India ……
Documentary – Jorge Luis Borges, The Mirror!
Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the “character of unreality in all literature”. His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph(1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. ……
Cultural Beacons: Rare interview with author Samuel Beckett
Footage of Samuel Beckett (Author of Waiting for Godott) in 1987, taken from “Waiting for Beckett: A Portrait of Samuel Beckett” (Global Village Production, 1994).… Continue reading