Tag: Doris Lessing

• A Little More Conversation: Why We Need More Literary Discourse Like Ray Nayler’s New Interview Series

  

  If the individual was melancholic, then the whole world was melancholic as well, the Baroque understanding of melancholia declared, but the reverse was also true: if the world was melancholic, then every single person had to be melancholic. … Corresponding to the mixing of the four humors, four kinds of melancholia could arise, [Robert] Burton…

  M L Clark

  March 14, 2021

  Politics, Writing Culture

  activism, Adam Curtis, Andy Dudak, Better Dreaming, Doris Lessing, Julie Nováková, László F. Földényi, literary culture, literary Twitter, M L Clark, Mercurio D. Rivera, modern-day imperialism, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, progressivism, queer activism, R.S.A. Garcia, Ray Nayler, Sam J. Miller, Writing Culture

• Lessons from Lessing: In Search of My Golden Notebook

  

  I can’t remember who recommended Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962) to me as a teen, but I read it during a period when I was glutting myself on mid-20th-century British authors (Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble being two other stand-outs; Beryl Bainbridge, I’d meet only in my late 20s). The Golden Notebook is most…

  M L Clark

  March 6, 2021

  Book Talk, M L Clark, Writing Culture

  Doris Lessing, iris murdoch, literary agents, literary culture, literature, margaret drabble, philosophy, publishing industry, science fiction