Culture Photo by Deborah Vaia Amber Ambrose Aurèle is a shoe designer, teacher, and art historicist. In 2012 she graduated as one of the first-generation Master Shoe Design at ArtEZ Fashion Masters. She searches for the boundaries between fashion and art, applying a conceptual approach to the design process and using it as an artistic expression. Margaret Larmuth: What processes help you get into your work? Can you tell me a bit about your workspace and the elements that are important for you to start working? Amber Ambrose Aurèle: I always need to have a concept. I can’t start with just a beautiful material, or just sketch a shoe design on a blank piece of paper. Of course I can, but then I am never happy with the design because I miss the concept, so these sketches and shoe designs never see the light. I always start with an idea, and then I begin to explore to find the correct base. For me, making a good design is the same as building a house: you don’t start with the roof first; you need to have a good foundation, and then you can start building. In my work I love to tell stories. It starts with a fascination for “something,” then I will dive deeper into it. This could be collecting books, seeing films, reading, researching, making photos. Once I have done the preparation I can work anywhere—on a railway station, in the train, in a café, at home—it doesn’t matter, I can work anywhere in the sketching part (of course... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2021-09-03 14:43:50 UTC ]
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At the London Review of Books, Colin Burrow reflects on how Ursula K. Le Guin‘s narrative prowess flourished within the constraints of science fiction and children’s literature. “Fiction needs the unruly energies of indeterminacy,” Burrow writes, “of being partly inside the mind of the reader,... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-01-20 21:30:12 UTC ]
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Interviews Barbara Epler started working at New Directions after graduating from college in 1984, and she has been its president and publisher since 2011. In 2015 Poets & Writers awarded Epler their Editor’s Prize, and in 2016 Words Without Borders... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-01-11 14:39:22 UTC ]
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AS SOON AS I picked up Dan Chiasson’s latest book of poetry, The Math Campers, I was immediately drawn into a collaborative experience in which writer and reader make meaning together. Chiasson’s lyrical ruminations can take the form of a “choose your own adventure,” but the poet skillfully... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-06 18:00:18 UTC ]
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LESLIE BRODY’S new biography, Sometimes You Have to Lie, describes the life of Louise Fitzhugh, author of the classic children’s book Harriet the Spy. Originally published in 1964 by Harper and Row, Harriet has never been out of print and has inspired multiple adaptations and spin-offs,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-02 13:30:00 UTC ]
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In Tony Godfrey’s entertaining book, artists, curators, museums and the all-devouring art market elbow one another for space on every page. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-29 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Drinking sherry, bingeing Downton Abbey ... how authors keep up the spirit of the season, even when writing during heatwaves and a nightmarish ChristmasChristmas novels are not a new phenomenon. Charles Dickens sold out of his first print run of A Christmas Carol in days in December 1843, while... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-17 15:22:04 UTC ]
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Interviews The Spring 2020 issue of World Literature Today explored a variety of works in the increasingly popular genre of graphic nonfiction. Now, as the year comes to a close, use of graphic media in literary storytelling is still on the rise. With... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-12-17 14:14:03 UTC ]
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Breaking from the James Bond mold, he turned the spy novel into high art as he explored the moral compromises of agents on both sides of the Iron curtain. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-12-14 16:04:51 UTC ]
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His genius was that his re-imaginings of people and events have proved more memorable than the real things. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-14 10:02:24 UTC ]
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The master of the Cold War thriller, John le Carré, died Saturday at 89. In 2016, 'PW' took a deep dive into the nearly 60-year literary of le Carré and offered a data visualization of some highlights from his long literary career. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A onetime British spy, he used the Cold War as his canvas in such novels as “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-13 10:56:56 UTC ]
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The boundary-smashing theater director turns an exuberant flow of reminiscences into a relatively coherent roller-coaster of narrative. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-09 12:59:55 UTC ]
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BBC director of arts Jonty Claypole is stepping down from his role and leaving the corporation in April 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 18:10:33 UTC ]
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Click below to watch the first virtual meeting of the Alta California Book Club, which Books Editor of Alta Journal David Ulin describes as: an opportunity for us to rethink the book club as a kind of ongoing process involving events, involving posts and interviews and discussions on the Alta... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-02 09:48:47 UTC ]
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New books by Michael Connelly, Halley Sutton, Aya de Leon, Robert Harris and S.J. Rozan. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-30 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury is launching a new imprint called Ebury Edge, dedicated to business and performance publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 02:14:00 UTC ]
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Anthropological study of metaphor takes 2020 Diagram prize, pulling ahead of Introducing the Medieval Ass in public voteA Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has beaten Introducing the Medieval Ass to win the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.Both books are academic studies, with the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-27 00:01:11 UTC ]
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JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer, editor, and journalist based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she was an editor at The Nation magazine and co-editor, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence (2014). She has written for CounterPunch,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-26 18:00:16 UTC ]
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Canada triumphs for the first time at for the oddest book title of the year gong. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 10:13:28 UTC ]
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Forward Arts Foundation executive director Susannah Herbert has announced she is stepping down after eight years in the role. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 04:48:33 UTC ]
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