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BEST OF WEB
Interview with a writer: John Gray
By JP O'Malley
“Well what I like about his writing is the lyricism: they are full of the most beautiful images. Ballard always said he wanted to be a painter, but didn’t have the talent. But his books are galleries of images. The way I talk about him in The Silence of Animals definitely reflects that. The ability he had was to turn scenes of desolation into beauty. When he walked as a child into a ruined and empty casino [in Shanghai in the 1930s], he said it was like wandering into something from the Arabian Nights. To him it was a realm of magic. What he was able to do from that experience was to conjure beauty out of it. That I believe is the power of myth”
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/books/2013/02/interview-with-a-writer-john-gray/ 

Muzaffar Al-Nawwab: In the Old Tavern
By Sinan Antoon
“Although born to an aristocratic family in Baghdad, Al-Nawwab immersed himself in the dialect of southern Iraq in the 1960s and composed some of the most memorable poems in Iraqi collective memory, many of which were put to music and sung by famous contemporary singers. Except for a few editions of his early poems in the Iraqi spoken, Al-Nawwab, who shunned mainstream cultural circles and lived in various exiles for the last four decades, never published, or authorized, a collection of his own works.”
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http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/10395/muzaffar-al-nawwab_in-the-old-tavern

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