Nachtrag zur Debatte

The Berlin-based cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s new book, “Parallel Lives,” is a dazzling and disorienting collection of short stories detail the cartoonist’s interactions with the future: nyer.cm/zyyj4QG

"American literature no longer means literature written by Americans, for Americans, about America ... Foreign is no longer foreign," writes Arbitrix Technologies: on.theatln.tc/fBrsz8w

A Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s Oldest & Longest-Running Science Fiction Magazine (Since 1926) bit.ly/2uCY0oe

Die einen Bücher liest man, um seine Zeit zu verstehen. Die anderen Bücher liest man, um seine Zeit zu verlassen. Und einige Bücher liest man, um Zeit überhaupt zu vergessen.

Weil gefragt wurde, warum Meteoriten immer genau in der Mitte von Einschlagskratern landen und wie groß da die Wahrscheinlichkeit ist: Angesichts von 510 Millionen Quadratkilometern Erdoberfläche stehen wir da auch vor einem Rätsel!

“How to Write Your Way Through the Middle” by @felsull link.medium.com/UlVO5QDuIS

"How many thousands of stories does a child hear, cre­ate, and read as she grows into adulthood? Perhaps hundreds of thousands." bit.ly/story-computer

To explore loss and mystery, novelist Nell Freudenberger journeyed into the atomic world. bit.ly/novelist-phys

As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? Reading in a Whole New Way po.st/1nSgmW via Smithsonian Magazine

“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.” 55 years ago today, Sartre became the first person to decline the Nobel Prize. His magnificent explanation of why brainpickings.org/2014/10/22/sar…

What kind of person writes with a manual typewriter? nyer.cm/3CBFRDf

Wahrscheinlich war Musik überall dabei in den antiken Kulturen. Aber wie klang das? Absolut faszinierend : Forscher haben es tatsächlich geschafft, antike griechische Musik zu rekonstruieren, spiel- und hörbar zu machen. Das Ergebnis hier bei Aeon: tinyurl.com/qmlu37y

Stuck inside for the foreseeable future? Entertain yourself with some of our more social-distance-friendly recommendations, like queuing up the pianist Eunice Norton’s recording of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” on YouTube. nyer.cm/Efmxmzz

Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript: Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery? bit.ly/2rMvHnu

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Die Haltung, die in Äußerungen von Autoren des Hauses zum Ausdruck kommt, ist nicht mit der des Verlags zu verwechseln. #Tellkamp

Sich wegen rechter Positionen von Uwe Tellkamp zu distanzieren, ist überflüssig. Nur im dauernden Streits lassen sich Ängste kleinarbeiten. sz.de/1.3899121

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet goo.gl/fW91go

“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.” Hemingway's advice on writing: brainpickings.org/2016/01/04/wit…