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In 1957, when Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize in literature in Stockholm, a reporter asked him which writers he felt the closest to. He gave two names: his close friend Rene Char and the philosophical mystic Simone Weil. By that point, Weil had been dead for over a decade, but Camus, according to Robert Zaretsky in
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas, didn’t consider her physical absence a “barrier between friends.” Camus edited the manuscripts Weil left behind after her 1943 death from tuberculosis during his short stint as an editor at the prestigious Gallimard publishing house. “The encounter,” writes Zaretsky, “left an enduring mark on Camus’s thought and writing. He grew close to Weil’s parents, remaining in touch with them even after he stepped down as an editor.”
Reading Raymond Chandler and other mysteries
By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 10:54 p.m.
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Jonathan Ames.Anne Thornton
With his 10th book, âA Man Named Doll,â Jonathan Ames has gone all noir with the story of Happy Doll, an ex-cop who protects the young women at a Thai spa from over eager clients. That, of course, does not turn out to be so simple, and soon someone has a bullet in his gut. Amesâs previous novel, âYou Were Never Really Here,â was adapted into a film starring Joaquin Phoenix. Ames is also the creator of two television series, âBlunt Talkâ and HBOâs âBored to Death.â He lives in Hollywood near Raymond Chandlerâs old office.
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A few weeks ago, the 2021 edition of “What Kids Are Reading” was published. This is an annual report that draws from data on more than 7 million youngsters in the US the largest such yearly study of reading among children from kindergarten to Grade 12. It allows educators, parents, policymakers and communicators to gauge the evolution of children’s reading habits and devise strategies to improve the trends. This year, the effect of the pandemic was an additional factor that observers wanted to analyze, in addition to the continuing tug of war between digital and print media, between fiction and non-fiction, etc.