10 tips van Zadie Smith. Lees ze hier.
1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Stukje maatschappijkritiek, toffe animatie en Franse hiphop.
Jennifer Egan schrijft kort verhaal voor Twitter. Hier kan je lezen wat er de afgelopen nachten op Twitter is gezet, en daarna nog een paar dagen live te volgen.
I created it as a work of fiction for Twitter, but I didn’t use technology to write it. I did it all by hand, writing each sentence in a little Japanese notebook, one sentence per square, over the course of a year.
Werkelijk schitterende trailer van de nieuwe Wes Anderson. Via @henkvanstraten. En bekijk ook vooral de site van de film, veel goodies en betoverende vormgeving.
32 iPad apps voor schrijvers. Hier de hele lijst.
Filmpje: hoe kan je overleven zonder hart(slag).
Mooie en goede reportage over het leven van, en op, een vuilnisbelt in Nairobi.
Herman Finkers Macbeth op YouTube. En hier een verzameling van 12 andere animatie films van Shakespeare stukken.
Interessant artikel in The Guardian over Suzanne ‘Hunger Games’ Collins. Een onbekende auteur van een inmiddels wereldberoemde serie.
The woman behind the phenomenon is a bit of a mystery. Collins wrote for children’s TV before turning to novels. She co-wrote the screenplay of The Hunger Games and is married to a TV actor – so knows a bit about the media circus – but she doesn’t do publicity, hasn’t even met her UK publishers, and seemed to tread the red carpet reluctantly at the film’s Los Angeles premiere.
![600 jaar oud manuscript in een onbekende taal en met tekeningen van onbekende planten. Via deze link kan je elke pagina bekijken, hieronder meer informatie van Wikipedia.
The Voynich manuscript, described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”,[3] is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy.[1][2] It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912.
Some pages are missing, but the current version comprises about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations. Much of the manuscript resembles herbal manuscripts of the time period, seeming to present illustrations and information about plants and their possible uses for medical purposes. However, most of the plants do not match known species, and the manuscript’s script and language remain unknown and unreadable. Possibly some form of encrypted ciphertext, the Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateurcryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. As yet, it has defied all decipherment attempts, becoming a cause célèbre of historical cryptology. The mystery surrounding it has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript a subject of both fanciful theories and novels. None of the many speculative solutions proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified.[4]
The Voynich manuscript was donated to Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1969, where it is catalogued under call number MS 408 and called a “Cipher Manuscript”.[5][6]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3e9vwhYHQ1r0lejco1_500.jpg)
600 jaar oud manuscript in een onbekende taal en met tekeningen van onbekende planten. Via deze link kan je elke pagina bekijken, hieronder meer informatie van Wikipedia.
The Voynich manuscript, described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”,[3] is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy.[1][2] It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912.
Some pages are missing, but the current version comprises about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations. Much of the manuscript resembles herbal manuscripts of the time period, seeming to present illustrations and information about plants and their possible uses for medical purposes. However, most of the plants do not match known species, and the manuscript’s script and language remain unknown and unreadable. Possibly some form of encrypted ciphertext, the Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateurcryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. As yet, it has defied all decipherment attempts, becoming a cause célèbre of historical cryptology. The mystery surrounding it has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript a subject of both fanciful theories and novels. None of the many speculative solutions proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified.[4]
The Voynich manuscript was donated to Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1969, where it is catalogued under call number MS 408 and called a “Cipher Manuscript”.[5][6]
Lunchtime snack: Graceland cover door The Tallest Man on Earth. Alternatieve link hier.
Te koop: 5 schitterende huizen met literaire roots (niet goedkoop). Dit huis werd vaak bezocht door Ernest Hemingway en kost 9,95 miljoen dollar. Via ft.com.
Trailer nieuwe film over Hemingway en Martha Gellhorn in Spaanse Burgeroorlog. Met Clive Owen, dus wie weet.
