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• The *9 Effect - Why Our Accomplishments Grow When Our Age Has A 9 At The End Of It

  06-01-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To a biologist or physician, the physiological differences between, say, 39-year-old Fred and 44-old Fred aren’t vast—probably not much different than those between Fred at 38 and Fred at 39. Nor do our circumstances diverge wildly in years that end in nine compared with those that end in zero. Our life narratives often progress from segment to segment, akin to the chapters of a book. But the actual story doesn’t abide by round numbers any more than novels do. After all, you wo
  
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• Let no one tell you that Manchester is a long way from Sicily | Howard Jacobson

  06-01-2018 09:00
  ‘Come on our patch playing Greensleeves again and you’ll end up in a wafer,’ I was warned by an Italian ice-cream family in the 50sI recently stumbled upon a statue in Manchester that I’d never seen before. From a distance, it looks like a fairytale rocking horse, and closer up, it still looks like a fairytale rocking horse, but it turns out to be a monument to Chopin, who played here in 1848, the year before he died. This speaks well both for the good relations Mancheste
  
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• Has Television Taken Over The Basic Strengths Of The Novel?

  06-01-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Great television is taking over the space occupied by many novels, and taking with them many excellent writers. And by and large, it’s delivering the same rewards to its audience. But what about novels that exploit the opportunities that are available only to the form of the novel, such as novels that explore interiority, or rely on the novel’s versatile treatment of time and causation? Who will speak for such novels?"
  
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