Art Essays

No dispare al pianista es la recopilación y traducción de tres ensayos de Oscar Wilde inéditos en el mundo hispanohablante. Sarcástico, refinado y lúcido, su opinión sobre los estadounidenses, los modelos y las prisiones se mantiene fresca y estimulante. Traducción y narración en español latinoamericano.

We all have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the mentoring and training or encouragement to become a great storyteller. Founded a quarter century ago, Girls Write Now has empowered young women and gender-expansive youth to harness their creative talents, gaining confidence, skills, and a community supporting them in sharing stories the world needs to hear.

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS: Delivered to the Art students of the Royal Academy at their Club in Golden Square, Westminster, on June 30, 1883. The text is taken from the original manuscript. In the lecture which it is my privilege to deliver before you to-night I do not desire to give you any abstract definition of beauty at all.

Chapters from My Autobiography is a collection of twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907. Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a typically Twain-esque collection of rambling anecdotes and ruminations.

"Menschen können gut ohne Gedichte sein, aber ein Gedicht nicht ohne Menschen." Wie kann es sein, dass eine Strickerin aus dem Lavanttal in Kärnten zu einer der größten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts wird? Jenny Erpenbeck lässt uns an ihrer Faszination für Christine Lavant (1915–1973) teilhaben, deren Gedichte sie zum ersten Mal liest, als sie Mitte der Neunziger in Graz lebt. An der Faszination für eine Frau, die sich durch ihre Lesewut, Sensibilität und Klugheit aus dem elenden Dasein, das ihr durch Krankheit und Armut vorgezeichnet war, herausgeschrieben hat.

A welcome surprise: more than 50 prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary - appearing in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere - have been parsing the political, artistic, and media idiom for the last three decades.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

How do you become a television writer? What does it take to create your own show? Did the writers of Lost really have a plan, or were they making it all up as they went? In a career spanning far longer than he cares to admit, Javier Grillo-Marxuach has not only written for some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) shows.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.