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The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People by Helena Attlee; Across Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand: An Adventure in Landscape and Italian Memory by Tim Parks - review by Jonathan Keates literaryreview.co.uk/volcani… via @Lit_Review
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Tune in for 'Let's Talk' with @marbellagiles - live from 10.00CET. @TimParksauthor with 'Across Sicily with The Thousand: An adventure in landscape and memory', and @JRBialik on 'Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge'
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Tim Parks in conversation with ICI London Director Francesco Bongarrà. He will talk about his new #book Across Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand.
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“School is the crucible where raw vitality encounters the collective will to impose order and control but also to bring cultural richness to lives that might otherwise remain inhibited and crude.” —@TimParksauthor go.nybooks.com/4c6ElAg
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E qui la mia intervista a @TimParksauthor: “Ormai si impara sulle app, ma il nostro fascino resisterà”
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Just arrived finished copies of
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Just off to the printers: Across #Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand by Tim Parks almabooks.com/product/across…
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Very grateful to @NewStatesman and the great @TimParksauthor for this glowing mention in the NS’s books of the year roundup
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' Is it good for the soul, I wonder, to hang on to old junk because you continue to cultivate the illusion of literary glory?'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor) on the lucrative afterlife of literary papers
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"A Season With Verona" by @TimParksauthor goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities...
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'We get a grip on the world so we can be better achievers, because we recognize achievers.'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor) on algorithms and literature
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'I honestly can’t think of any books important to me that seem designed to instil confidence in the future of humanity.'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): Teaching Eng Lit in Italian classrooms
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'the problem may lie in confusing literature with content'
A few reflections on teaching literature... the-tls.com/regular-features…
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#BookRecommendation: A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
'There are many ways of touring the land that Italians, following Dante, call il bel paese, and Parks is as perceptive a guide as could be wished.' TLS
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'A writer also makes sense in relation to other writers. As the years went by, I would come across premonitions or echoes of Beckett in others.'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): My lifelong love of Samuel Beckett
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'The fact that you enjoy a foreign novel in English does not necessarily mean it was well translated.'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): Judging the merits of literary juries
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@TimParksauthor “Non è da me” - I’d like to think there’s a bit James in all of us Tim! A super read. Really enjoyed Mr. Geography recently also.
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“Turning my pillow, I remember a remark by a Dutch friend, the essayist Bas Heijne, that one effect of globalization is to make people in smaller countries think of their own cultures as minor, inadequate.” —@TimParksauthor
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“Voltaire’s notion of a universally applicable taste, Baretti thought, was simply French taste applied to cultures with quite different mindsets: a form of imperialism.”
@TimParksauthor considers the idea of World Literature.
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'Would it have to be me, I began to wonder, to draw people’s attention to the large and altogether fascinating elephant in the room?'
Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor) on Elena Ferrante and identity
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