Headline & Editorial
Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Refreshed feelings
Magazine -> #14 RefreshMr. Sharpe, what is your relationship to information nowadays? Do you feel to be in contact with the babble of the world, to “refresh” is relevant for you and for a writer in general? My relationship to information is like that of a fish to water. The very oxygen that feeds each cell of my body is tainted with information, and, to paraphrase K...
continue..Rough Guide to the future
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThere are travel guides for almost any corner of the planet. None of these can tell us though what the world will be like tomorrow, or at least not until next year. That’s when Rough Guide to the Future by the British science writer Jon Turney will be available in bookstores. What drove you to write such a book? There’s not much fiction aro...
continue..Never loose purity
Magazine -> #25 Innovage“…that feeling we all have sometimes that everything we say or do is not our own, that we as people are only quotations from our environment, that we are carried along by the merciless stream of history and reality... the complications arise when one tries to give that feeling an identity. I do not think it can be done within a conventional nov...
continue..Necessary efforts
Magazine -> #11 Different culturesIt's seven years now that writers, publishers, reporters, and above all hoards of readers who annually meet in Mantua for Festivaletteratura (literature festival) in September. Amid happenings of all sorts, readings, press conferences, and concerts all across the town centre, blockbuster authors meet and have a friendly bar-like chat with simple fo...
continue..Escher, the multiple artist
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeKnowledge is always on the move, more than ever an exploratory practice. It scours its way through territories, comes alive in its relationship with others, and is especially enriched when the lore and learning in one field manage to cut across disciplinary borders and meet up with those in other fields. The works of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic...
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