1. “Lemon Pancakes” by Judyanette Muchiri – short story
From The Magunga: We will have a beautiful church wedding. We will celebrate, look at the people as they look at us and think how lucky we are. We will get two chubby babies, and we will name them after our parents.
2. Haruki Murakami’s agony uncle answers become eight-volume book
From The Guardian: Haruki Murakami is riding high in the charts again, after a digital edition of his latest work that stretches to eight volumes has raced up the bestseller lists.
Featuring the Japanese writer’s thoughts on everything from jazz and cats to relationships.
3. “Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones” by Maria Popova – essay
From Brain Pickings: We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. So this tendency to offend Eco’s library sensibility by focusing on the known is a human bias that extends to our mental operations.
4. “Our sweet teeth” by Anna Katharina Schaffner – review of The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
From The Times Literary Supplement: The Companion abounds with such curious theories and facts. Who knew, for example, that the familiar plastic flying toy known as the frisbee was named after the American bakery manager William Russell Frisbie, whose popular flat pies were sold in tin plates with his name imprinted in bold letters on the base?
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Hassan Mahamdallie reviews Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie’s new novel
From The Independent: The book’s title signposts us to the One Thousand and One Nights collection of stories. However, Rushdie’s style, testing the reader with a succession of cartoon characters, digressions and pop-culture and literary references, moves us far away from the beauty of the stripped-down storytelling of the classical fables.
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