Can't get enough: photos and books
/
Lenka shot in black and white.
Can't stop looking at photographer Alavaro Deprit's series of Spain's Andalusia. The photos are a mixture of reality, dream, present and past.
There's also new mobile photo app worth downloading: Lenka. Black & white photos with lots of depth -- and, oh so refreshingly, it is not a social media, sharing blah blah blah. It just helps you take beautiful pictures with your phone.
Nobel and Booker-winning writer Nadine Gordimer passed away. In 1983, the great Paris Review published an "Art of Fiction" interview with Gordimer (Raymond Carver was the issue's other interview) in which she comments on growing up in South Africa, politics and conflict in her work, admired authors, and the act of writing.
And now that it is summer, there are lists and lists of books to read. The Financial Times' Summer Books of 2014 is an incredibly good bet and Gateway for Africa has a good list of the 50 Books By African Women That Everyone Should Read (yes, it includes Nadine Gordimer.) And, in case such help is necessary, the WSJ has a list of books you shouldn't bother to pick up for the summer because you are just going to put them down again.
“Because a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing—he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people. ”
