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Common Memory Quirk Tied To Mental Illness

| By Ferris Jabr  | May 23, 2012

| Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Subconscious, Mental Illness, Video, Consciousness, Brain, Schizophrenia, Proust, Memory, Psychology, Mind Pops, Mind, Hallucinations, Science News

Lia Kvavilashvili sat in her office at the University of Hertfordshire, mentally reviewing a study she had recently published. She knew that there was...

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Better than Twinkies, Madeleines

Miranda Levenstein | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Proust, Brad Pitt, Hostess Brands Bankruptcy, Moneyball, Twinkies, Madeleines, Dorie Greenspan, The Oscars, Food News
Miranda Levenstein

All of the senses can evoke memories. But it's when taste brings my past to the present that I am most profoundly affected. That's what happened with my bite of the Twink. And that's also all it took for me to toss the pack in the trash.

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Cuba: Music to Remember and Music to Forget

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Proust, Silvio Rodriguez, World, Che Guevara's New Man, Cuba, Nuevo Trova, World News
Yoani Sanchez

This week we've enjoyed one of the many festivals of trova music that have begun, this time, in Santa Clara province.

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Summertime Book Blues

Lev Raphael | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Authors, Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, Summer Reading, Popes, The Vatican, Mary Gordon, Books, Emile Zola, Proust, Reading, Florence, Books News
Lev Raphael

I used to put books aside especially for the summer, knowing I'd have more time and feel more relaxed, less stressed, more open to the long loving voyage with an accomplished author at the helm.

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Monty Python's Terry Jones -- Renaissance Man

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, John Cleese, John Oliver, Robin Williams, Allison Telford, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, The Daily Show, Proust, Ann Dudley, Norman Mailer, Monty Python, Anna Soderstrom, George Bush, War on Terror, Absolutely Anything, Tony Blair, The Royal Opera House, The Oxford Revue, Labyrinth, Lindbury Theatre, Iraq, Oxford, Evil Machines, Monty Phython and the Holy Grail, The Royal Grammar School, Chaucer, Jennifer Connally, David Bowie, Erik the Viking, Ripping Yarns, Entertainment News
Carole Mallory

Whether taking on Chaucer, challenging Ireland's most doggedly held beliefs of the Middle Ages, or having a child out of wedlock with a woman more than half his age, Terry Jones is not afraid to take on the establishment.

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Nabokov, Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Aldous Huxley, Camus, Swann's Way, Classic Books, Brideshead Revisted, Brave New World, The Age of Innocence, Classic Literature, Huxley, Proust, American Literature, Lolita, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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Nobel Prize Snubs In Literature

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Nabokov, Nobel, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekov, Nobel Literature, Vladimir Nabokov, Chekhov, Literature Prizes, Twain, Proust, Nobel Laureate, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Nobel Literature Prize, Nobel Prize, Tolstoy, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Proust, Philip Roth, Books News

Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma, cas...

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Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Bowen, JD Salinger, Raymond Chandler, Salinger, Twain, Franz Kafka, Proust, Kafka, Carver, Raymond Carver, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, Frank O'Hara, Books News

Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...

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The Hare With Amber Eyes Has History, Mystery, Society, Hitler And More: Something For Everyone

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proust, Netsuke, Japan, Edmund Du Waal, Nazis, Vienna, Paris, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

It's curious that Edward de Waal, author of the most exquisite memoir you're likely to read this year isn't a writer. He's a potter, said to be one of the best in England, and Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster.

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13 Books Nobody's Read But Says They Have (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Don Quixote, Books, Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Infinite Jest, Famous Books, Chaucer, Bestsellers, James Joyce, Lying About Books, Proust, Slidepollajax, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Books are a funny thing. For hundreds of years, reading has been considered one of the highest forms of enlightenment. Because of the meaning and valu...

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Off the C(H)uff: Jennifer Egan Talks About A Visit From the Goon Squad

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emerald City and Other Stories, Stieg Larsson, Jennifer Egan, The Keep, Lisbeth Salander, Look at Me, Proust, A Visit From the Good Squad, The Invisible Circus, Books News
Patricia Zohn

2010-07-27-eganoutside.jpg It's summer. Some people are reading Larsson or re-reading Proust. Instead, I spent last week curled up with Jennifer Egan.

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ON MOTHER'S DAY OR ANY DAY: Cinnamon Buns in the Morning

Cheryl Carlesimo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mother's Day, Food Memories, Childhood, Best Cook, Proust, Family Favorites, Sunday Mornings, Aromas, Baking Buns, Cinnamon Buns, Food News
Cheryl Carlesimo

ON MOTHER'S DAY OR ANY DAY Cinnamon Buns in the Morning Everyone thinks that their mother is the best cook in the world. My mother, Lucy, had to be a...

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The 5 Most Reclusive Authors Of The 20th Century: In Defense Of Privacy

Flavorwire | Caroline Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Dennis Johnson, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Harper Lee, Writing, Books, Reclusive Authors, Proust, Reading, Cormac McCarthy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books News

In an age where widespread self promotion (and in many cases, oversharing) is just 140 characters away, the idea of a reclusive author seems both coun...

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New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Fiction, Proust, Lydia Davis, Translator, Collected Stories, Translation, Authors, Nyr, New York Review, Books News

The New York Review Of Books Dan Chiasson The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 733 pp., $30.00 1. Lydia ...

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Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Review of Books, Literature, Damion Searls, Radio Conversation, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Brown University, Proust, Green, Nyrb, Transcendentalists, Christopher Lydon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...

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In Sartre's Words. The Day Proust and Joyce Met. The Death of François Baudot

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean-François Louette, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, Sartre, Malraux, La Pleiade, Charles Haas, The Carnets, Proust, Gilles Philippe, Swann, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

His name was François Baudot. He was an old friend I scarcely saw in the last months, but whose suicide at the age of 60 moves me deeply.

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Avatar: Pandora Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lsd, Adi Da Samraj, Depression, William James, Pandora, Adyashanti, Psychedelics, Ram Dass, Chaos Theory, Alan Watts, Proust, Spiritual Path, William Blake, Gaia, Avatar, Healthy Living News
Eliezer Sobel

Certain Avatar viewers are leaving the movie depressed at their inability to access a world as spiritual and beautiful as Pandora. The problem is not Earth, but rather these viewers.

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Other Economists in the Room

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Magazine, No-Nothing, External Costs, Dickens, Marx, The Shock Doctrine, Hoover Institution, Trollope, Amazon, Palo Alto, Alan Greenspan, Finance, Keynes, Communist Manifesto, Proust, Oil, New York Times, Exxon, Frued, Kiev, Paul Krugman, Business News
Jane Smiley

I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.

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Obama's Beach Books -- and Yours

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: George Pelecanos, Outer Banks, Thomas Friedman, Obama Martha's Vineyard, The Way Home, Kent Haruf, Beach Books, Fareed Zakaria, Lush Life, Vacation Reading, Hot Flat and Crowded, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, Elmore Leonard, David McCullough, Beach Reading, John Adams, Proust, North Carolina, Martha's Vineyard, Richard Price, Plainsong, Healthy Living News
Rick Horowitz

The thing about beach books -- or even "beach books" -- isn't the total tonnage of the entire pile. It's the glow of the glorious possibilities.

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Islamic Porn, Fake Diamonds And Racist Literature

Huffington Post Contributor | Andrew Marantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prieto, Andrew Marantz, Proust, International Literature, International PEN, Pen, Ee, PEN World Voices Festival, World News

When the novelist Jose Manuel Prieto left Cuba to spend a decade in Siberia, he could only fit a few books in his suitcase, so he packed several volum...

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The Obamas Are Making Us Smarter! Thanks Michelle & Barack for Stopping the Dumbing Down of America

Betsy Perry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dumbing Down, Proust, Obama Intelligence, Obamas Smarter, George Bush, Obamas, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, 100 Days, Style News
Betsy Perry

Listening to a president hard-pressed to get a sentence out without a goof, I believe we got lazy. But now we have a very smart first family and I don't want to be left behind.

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Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hemingway, Smarmy, Humor, Smug, Satire, Books, Proust, William Faulkner, Reading, Humor and Satire, Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

The publishing industry is not, contrary to rumor, dead, thanks to people like you and your grand plans. This year I'm going to finally get around to reading X.

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How Far Is the Ocean From Here, Virginia Woolf, Writer Interview, Workshop, Book Deal, Amy Shearn, Writing, Fiction, How to Write, Authors, Writing Class, Surrogate Mother, James Joyce, Random House, Writer Interviews, Literary Agent, Susannah Prue, Yuppies, Proust, Book, Contemporary Fiction, PJ Mark, Surrogate, Media News
Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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Primary Questions About The Making Of A "Who Is" The President Series; Or, Something Else That NBC, ABC and CBS Have In Common

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NBC News, Rudy Giuiliani, Katie Couric, 2008 Election, CBS News, Nightly News Wars, Anchor Wars, Hillary Clinton, ABC News, Where's Kucinich?, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Proust, Eat the Press, Media News

CBS News announced a new Presidential candidate interview series, beginning tonight, called "Primary Questions: Character, Leadership & the Candidates" wherein Katie Couric will pose ten Proust questionnaire-type questions to candidates.

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