Life and Literature, Macondo

2024-02-21T21:57:31+00:00

The importance of ๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ƒ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™™ ๐™”๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™™๐™š has been compared to the Bible and ๐˜ฟ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™Œ๐™ช๐™ž๐™ญ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™š, but I believe the story's brilliance surpasses both. This is the one book everyone should read at least once. As Salman Rushdie put it, "๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ขฬ๐˜ณ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ป ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ."

Life and Literature, Macondo2024-02-21T21:57:31+00:00

A Beautiful Journey

2024-02-21T21:57:41+00:00

In teaching us that travel equated wisdom, Bourdain showed us that the more you do travel the more you learn how much you donโ€™t know and how much more you want to know.. an endless paradox.

A Beautiful Journey2024-02-21T21:57:41+00:00

Life and Literature, Saigon

2024-02-21T21:57:59+00:00

I first read Graham Greene when I was 15. I would take British literature and follow him everywhere - from ๐˜ฝ๐™ง๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™๐™ค๐™˜๐™  to the whiskey priest through Mexico in his most critically-acclaimed ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™‹๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™‚๐™ก๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฎ, four weeks in Liberia in ๐™…๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™’๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฅ๐™จ, a failing marriage in Sierra Leone in ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ƒ๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง, ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ƒ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ง๐™–๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ก in Argentina, then South Africa in ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ƒ๐™ช๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง, ๐™Š๐™ช๐™ง ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ƒ๐™–๐™ซ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™–, and the story I love most in WWII London, ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™€๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™›๐™›๐™–๐™ž๐™ง. But it was reading ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™Œ๐™ช๐™ž๐™š๐™ฉ ๐˜ผ๐™ข๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ, set in 1950s Vietnam, that started it all for me.

Life and Literature, Saigon2024-02-21T21:57:59+00:00

Life and Literature, Istanbul

2024-02-21T21:56:25+00:00

"๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ." The reason why I travel? It's because I want to see the world as I have read it. This is my tribute to Orhan Pamuk, his books, and his city.

Life and Literature, Istanbul2024-02-21T21:56:25+00:00
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