Heidegger Will Make You Scream.
Are you feeling anxious? Can the weekend not arrive soon enough? Today’s Grab Bag feels your pain. As does the Notre Dame Review. They’re discussing Heidegger’s theory of angst and a new book that reexamines the philosopher’s assertion that angst dictates life. The EU plants its collective feet on the literature map. Today they announce the winners of their debut literature prize. Speaking of contests, a recent Man-Booker prize winner discusses the Indian city of his birth, as well as his thirst for English novels. The Guardian looks at how computers influenced writers even before they were writing on them, Salon chats with Dave Eggers about print’s future, and Dave Kipen, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Director is crazy, absolutely ding dong bat crazy for Thomas Pynchon. Find out why, or not. Just don’t fret. Anxiety is for the birds. – Kevin Murphy
– Against the grain of many and varied commentators on this theme, Elkholy’s central thesis is that the experience of Angst or anxiety, and the concomitant encounter with the nothing fundamentally disindividuates and strips inauthentic Da-sein of any and all sense of selfhood. — Heidegger in the Notre Dame Review
– The names of twelve European authors to receive the first ever European Union Prize for Literature have been announced by the European Commission. The prizes will be presented during an Award ceremony in Brussels on 28 September. In recognition of his oeuvre and literary success Henning Mankell, the Swedish author, has accepted the role of Ambassador of the European Union Prize for Literature for the coming year. — Literature Prize in Euro Alert
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– Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. Books were expensive in those days, and few of us could actually buy them. — Arivind Adiga in the Independent
– Long before ebooks appeared, computers were providing rich material for writers. From William Gibson to EM Forster, the author of Roadside Crosses rounds up the best. — Writing Material in the Guardian
– I think there’s a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. — Dave Eggers in Salon
– David Kipen, the National Endowment for the Arts’ literature director, National Reading Initiatives, loves many many authors and the great kaleidoscope of books they’ve written. But mention “Gravity’s Rainbow,” “The Crying of Lot 49,” “Vineland,” Mason & Dixon,” “Against the Day,” “Slow Learner” or “V,” or breathe the name of the author of those works, the reclusive, National Book Award-winning Thomas Pynchon, and Kipen’s enthusiasm is boundless. He shared some of it with Jacket Copy’s Carolyn Kellogg. — Dave Kipen in Jacket Copy
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