Those who know me well will know that I’ll crow on happily about my favorite writer, Jorge Luis Borges. The Paris Review’s Maria Bustillos pens an article on the erstwhile writer, his Argentine, friend and countryman, Surrealist painter Xul Solar, and their interest in the occult.
Literature
[Poetry] Charles Bukowski – Bluebird
We rarely have poetry on this site. That has to change. A bit of Chuck Bukowski to start things off.
[Literature] First Solzhenitsyn Museum Opens in Russia

It is an absolute shame that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was not honored with a museum until recently, but at least the problem is now rectified. Russia Indsider reports on this news here.
Dante Turns Seven Hundred and Fifty

A belated happy birthday to the most important writer of the last 1,000 years, Dante Aleghieri.
John Kleiner of The New Yorker writes on Dante here.
[Literature] MH Abrams, Norton anthology founder, influential critic, dead at age 102
Meyer Howard Abrams, the legendary literary critic, teacher and founder of W. W. Norton and the Norton Anthology of English Literature, has passed on.
The Guardian prints his obituary here.
[Film] Viy (1967)
[Literature] Disputed Shakespeare Play Is ‘Proven’ Genuine

News from The Bard, via ShortList:
The play Double Falsehood – also known at The Distrest Lovers, was published in 1728 by the English writer and playwright Lewis Theobald, who claimed that his version was based on three manuscripts of an unnamed lost Shakespeare play. Subsequently, having initially rejected these claims of Shakespearean origin, some scholars had come to believe it to be an adaptation of a lost play called Cardenio, which had been written by the Bard and John Fletcher – another English playwright who was equally famous at the time when they were both writing.
Read more here!
[Literature] Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66

Sir Terry Pratchett, fun and pragmatic despite dying from Alzheimer’s Disease to the very end, finally met his end today. He was 66, far too young to leave this mortal coil.
[Literature] Jorge Luis Borges Selects 74 Books for Your Personal Library

The ever-brilliant Jorge Luis Borges, even from the grave, will make you broke looking for incredible books to read.
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