Nice touch. There’s one at every seat at the Nebula Awards banquet. #Nebulas2018
I love IBS's books and have read many of them, but I fail to understand how such niche writing garnered a Nobel Prize in Literature.
The audience of his brilliant books are Jews, old Jews, Judeophiles and maybe 1% just randoms. But how many European Jews really are there to read his books to br...
While researching another question, a couple of us have found what appears to be a contradiction in the Wikipedia page for Isaac Bashevis Singer. The introductory section of the article says:
He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish.
B...
The Collins Bird Guide is a field guide to the birds of the Western Palearctic.
Its authors are Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström and Peter J. Grant, and it is illustrated by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström (with two plates of North American passerines contributed by Larry McQueen). It has been described as "undoubtedly the finest field guide that has ever been produced", and "the last great bird book of the 20th century".
It was originally published in Swedish in 1999, and in English in hardback in the same year, and later in paperback. A large-format English edition has...
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Who besides me will ever read these letters? From whom but myself
shall I get comfort? As I need comforting often, I frequently feel
weak, and dissatisfied with myself; my shortcomings are too great. I
know this, and every day I try to improve myself, again and again.
What...
