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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 23, 2019 15:48:01 GMT
Oh, I remember him very well.
However, I am more pleased to discover that NPR has finally conformed to EU internet rules and that it is accessible to me again.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2019 11:45:53 GMT
RIP Andrea Levy, author of the excellent Small Island amongst others.
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Post by bjd on Jul 17, 2019 8:39:53 GMT
Andrea Camilleri, the wonderful author of the Montalbano books set in Sicily died today.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 17, 2019 11:54:32 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Jul 17, 2019 14:29:19 GMT
Watching Montalbano videos with my parents triggered the horrifying revelation that in Italy, learning Italian doesn't mean one can speak the language people actually speak in the regions. I was just grazing a Camilleri book of short stories called "Gli Arancini di Montalbano" the other day in fact. I suspect that there are a lot of Italians whose Sicilian vocabulary was likewise mostly learned watching Montalbano stories.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2019 18:58:29 GMT
Oh Huckle -- I am sorry. I'm addressing this to you as I know how I feel when a favorite author dies. It is a true loss.
I don't know about the younger people, Fumobici, but a cousin of mine who is no more than 60 still speaks it by preference, so there must be a lot of it around.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 18, 2019 0:46:52 GMT
There is still a significant cohort of Sicilian speakers, in Italy and elsewhere. Regional languages are a treasure.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 6, 2019 14:38:58 GMT
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer whose imaginative power in "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American literature, has died at age 88.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2019 20:35:47 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Aug 6, 2019 23:34:36 GMT
Lovely. I saw this great loss, but was going to leave the inception to US and US+ anyporters. Though her audience is far beyond.
I hope her cultural significance can act as some kind of counterweight to the forces demonising black and brown people. Note that I don't like thugs of any hue. They usually target their compatriots.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 7, 2019 1:59:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2019 3:08:26 GMT
He's been gone, Kimby!
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Post by Kimby on Sept 7, 2019 3:57:15 GMT
Wonder why that just popped up in my news feed today? Sorry!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2019 16:01:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2020 19:18:27 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2020 20:35:04 GMT
Me too, bixa.
There was a special about Jim Lehrer’s career on PBS last night. I tuned in a tiny bit late and in the 10 minutes or so that I listened, not once did any one say “dead”, “died” or “passing of”, or post his birth and death dates over his image, so I wasn’t sure he’d died until it was reported in the news this morning.
Maybe they just couldn’t bear to say that he was gone for good. He had a 34 year career with the PBS News Hour, 20 years as co-anchor with McNeil, and 14 years as solo anchor, and he moderated 12 US presidential debates, more than any other reporter. We’ve missed him since he retired. A good reporter and a good man. RIP Jim Lehrer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2020 20:50:41 GMT
Beautiful, Kimby!
In the NYTimes obit, it was mentioned that NewsHour had been criticized for being boring. Yeah, I guess reporting the facts or sincerely interviewing major players is way more boring than fake banter, fake outrage, misleading sound bites, blonde bimbos, etc. Is it possible to hope that Lehrer's death might move journalists back towards actual journalism?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2020 5:48:25 GMT
Mary Higgins Clark had many fans around the world.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2020 15:37:31 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Feb 18, 2020 23:42:45 GMT
I'll have to read some of those, as they are absolutely off my radar, and I think I might like them. We have a very good library system now, for French, English and many other languages.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2020 11:31:19 GMT
I just heard on the radio that Luis Sepulveda died of Covid19. A Chilean writer, age 70, he was living in Spain.
I liked his writing -- interesting but not too complicated Spanish, so I was able to read him without much difficulty.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 16, 2020 12:45:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2020 5:19:21 GMT
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Post by bjd on Nov 21, 2020 7:10:19 GMT
I really liked everything I have ever read by Jan Morris. Great writer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2020 22:55:06 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Dec 14, 2020 1:36:15 GMT
Tinker tailor spy was one of the first books i read in English, when i was 21.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2020 4:18:41 GMT
I'll bet his publisher is in mourning.
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Post by bjd on Dec 14, 2020 6:16:28 GMT
I recently re-read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Great book and I could see Richard Burton in black and white in my mind's eye while I was reading it.
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Post by Biddy on Dec 15, 2020 15:16:45 GMT
Just hoping John Le Carre finished another book before he died.
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Post by lugg on Dec 17, 2020 8:47:59 GMT
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