Kazuo Ishiguro: how I wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks
Many people have to work long hours. When it comes to the writing of novels, however, the consensus seems to be that after four hours or so of continuous writing, diminishing returns set in. I’d always more or less gone along with this view, but as the summer of 1987 approached I became convinced a drastic approach was needed. Lorna, my wife, agreed. Until that point, since giving up the day job f
Non-fiction books everyone should read – infographic
What are the must-read classics of non-fiction? We’ve scraped, collated and summarised a selection of “all-time” book polls, prize-winners and readers’ picks to assemble a visual consensus. We mixed high-brow and low-brow. There are Pulitzer prize winners as well as lists from Time, the Times Literary Supplement and – of course – the Guardian, as well as the wisdom of the crowd in sources such as
Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller?
Somehow, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty has become a conversation piece among well-read people. Its graphic red-and-ivory cover is inescapable. Early in its launch, it hit No 1 on Amazon’s bestseller list and the paper version – a doorstop in punishing, heavy hardcover – sold out in major bookstores. Piketty’s main argument is this: that invested capital – in the stock marke
Haruki Murakami: 'My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well'
When you start reading Murakami novels, life starts being like them. That’s their special magic. So said Guardian book club host John Mullan, introducing this month’s guest, the revered and multi-selling Japanese writer, at Edinburgh international book festival Mullan told of having that very experience as he ordered a coffee on the train to Edinburgh. “You like Haruki Murakami!” exclaimed the wai
Emily Dickinson gets a new look in recovered photograph
A daguerreotype appearing to show the famously reclusive poet is only the second photo we have of her A photograph believed to be an extremely rare image of Emily Dickinson has surfaced in her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts, showing a young woman in old-fashioned clothes, a tiny smile on her lips and a hand extended solicitously towards her friend. There is, currently, only one authenticated
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