Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera

2010-10-15 Thread Carl Tollander
Maybe The Art you takeis equal to the Artyou make. I've always had a bias for the performance arts, in that appreciation there comes to mean making a piece developed possibly somewhere else your own by performing it; making it manifest in your own unique context. Sterling might

Re: [FRIAM] The 10 Best Literary Works - the envelope please!

2010-10-15 Thread Alfredo Covaleda
Let me introduce my big and brown nose in the middle of your interesting conversation. Titles are in Spanish but are easy to translate. El Quijote de la Mancha. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Cien años de Soledad. García Márquez (Colombiano) El amor en los tiempos del colera. García Márquez

Re: [FRIAM] The 10 Best Literary Works - the envelope please!

2010-10-15 Thread Pamela McCorduck
It's good to have some of those Spanish-language books that haven't already made it to our list. Did nobody mention A Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien an~os de Soledad)? And I can tell you that as a writer, I thought El amor en los tiempos de colera was stunning--an old master on top of his

Re: [FRIAM] The 10 Best Literary Works - the envelope please!

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Smith
I don't buy into the idea that there is a qualitative difference between fictional and non-fictional narrative. * If you have ever been interviewed by anyone on anything you probably know that you have been misquoted or at least misrepresented at some level. What you knew to be

Re: [FRIAM] The Case for a Literary Education (re 10 Best...)

2010-10-15 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
To the Group and Glen, Saying someone's work is a piece of shit... Very profound I think, let me explain. Lately I have been watching a lot of American News and one character seems to show up repeatedly for unknown reasons. Anne Coulter. I find her discussions and arguments illogical and without