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British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
Kirjandusfestivali HeadRead raames toimus Kirjanike Maja Musta laega saalis avalik vestlus tuntud ja tunnustatud briti kirjaniku A. S. Byattiga, mida juhtis tõlkija ja kirjastaja Krista Kaer.
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A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book.
http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref;=video_yt_Byatt
- published: 29 May 2009
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http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the best thing Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece Possession...[It] superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Recorded October 29, 2009 at 92nd Street Y.
- published: 11 Jul 2012
- views: 965
Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poetry, essays and reportage. In the English-speaking world, Nooteboom is perhaps best known for his novel The Following Story, an elegant fable about love, travel, philosophy, science and selfhood, and Roads to Santiago, an intensely personal pilgrimage through the landscape, history and culture of Spain. Nooteboom's latest book The Foxes Come at Night (MacLehose Press) is a sequence of linked stories set in the islands and cities of the Mediterranean. Nooteboom discussed his life, work and travels with the Booker Prize-winning novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, a great admirer of his work.
- published: 12 Nov 2013
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Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career reminded her of the excitement of research and persuaded her not to turn her back on her life as a scientist.
Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children’s books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peek inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives.
‘Novel Thoughts’ was inspired by research at the University of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who interviewed 20 scientists for the ‘What Scientists Read’ project. She found that reading fiction can help scientists to see the bigger picture and be reminded of the complex richness of human experience. Novels can show the real stories behind the science, or trigger a desire in a young reader to change lives through scientific discovery. They can open up new worlds, or encourage a different approach to familiar tasks.
View the whole series: Novel Thoughts: What scientists read (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OJey8wqE7pyczqsQ8BFrx3)
Read about Novel Thoughts (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read)
Interviews by Jessica Penrose.
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE (born 24 August 1936) — known as A. S. Byatt (/ˈbaɪ.ət/ BY-ət — is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Biography
Byatt was born in Sheffield as Antonia Susan Drabble, the eldest child of John Drabble, QC, and Kathleen Bloor, a scholar of Browning. Her sisters are the novelist Margaret Drabble and the art historian Helen Langdon. Her brother Richard Drabble QC is a barrister. The family moved to York as a result of the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War.
Byatt's upbringing was fairly unhappy as she struggled against her domineering mother. She was educated at two independent boarding schools, Sheffield High School and the Quaker Mount School in York. She noted in an interview in 2009, "I am not a Quaker, of course, because I'm anti-Christian and the Quakers are a form of Christianity but their religion is wonderful – you simply sat in silence and listened to the nature of things." She did not enjoy boarding school, citing her need to be alone and her difficulty in making friends. She went on to Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College in the United States, and Somerville College, Oxford. Byatt lectured in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of London (1962–71), the Central School of Art and Design and from 1972 to 1983 at University College London.
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British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal." -
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A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book. http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref;=video_yt_Byatt -
2:48Interview With Author A.S. Byatt
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74:15A.S. Byatt: The Children's Book | 92Y Readings
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http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the best thing Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece Possession...[It] superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Recorded October 29, 2009 at 92nd Street Y. -
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57:13Cees Nooteboom in conversation with A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011
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Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poetry, essays and reportage. In the English-speaking world, Nooteboom is perhaps best known for his novel The Following Story, an elegant fable about love, travel, philosophy, science and selfhood, and Roads to Santiago, an intensely personal pilgrimage through the landscape, history and culture of Spain. Nooteboom's latest book The Foxes Come at Night (MacLehose Press) is a sequence of linked stories set in the islands and cities of the Mediterranean. Nooteboom discussed his life, work and travels with the Booker Prize-winning novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, a great admirer of his work. -
1:39Short film looking at A S Byatt's shortlisted novel, The Children's Book
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2:33Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s PossessionNovel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career reminded her of the excitement of research and persuaded her not to turn her back on her life as a scientist. Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children’s books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peek inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. ‘Novel Thoughts’ was inspired by research at the University of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who interviewed 20 scientists for the ‘What Scientists Read’ project. She found that reading fiction can help scientists to see the bigger picture and be reminded of the complex richness of human experience. Novels can show the real stories behind the science, or trigger a desire in a young reader to change lives through scientific discovery. They can open up new worlds, or encourage a different approach to familiar tasks. View the whole series: Novel Thoughts: What scientists read (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OJey8wqE7pyczqsQ8BFrx3) Read about Novel Thoughts (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read) Interviews by Jessica Penrose. -
3:24Possession | A.S. Byatt
Possession | A.S. ByattPossession | A.S. Byatt
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episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 01
British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes ha... -
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A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book. http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref;=video_yt_Byatt -
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A.S. Byatt: The Children's Book | 92Y Readings
http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the best thing Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece Possession...[It] superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Recorded October 29, 2009 at 92nd Street Y. -
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Cees Nooteboom in conversation with A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011
Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poetry, essays and reportage. In the English-speaking world, Nooteboom is perhaps best known for his novel The Following Story, an elegant fable about love, travel, philosophy, science and selfhood, and Roads to Santiago, an intensely personal pilgrimage through the landscape, history and culture of Spain. Nooteboom's latest book The Foxes Come at Night (MacLehose Press) is a sequence of linked stories set in the islands and cities of the Mediterranean. Nooteboom discussed his life, work and travels with the Booker Prize-winning novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, a great admirer of his work. -
Short film looking at A S Byatt's shortlisted novel, The Children's Book
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Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career reminded her of the excitement of research and persuaded her not to turn her back on her life as a scientist. Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children’s books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peek inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. ‘Novel Thoughts’ was inspired by research at the University of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who in... -
Possession | A.S. Byatt
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episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 01
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British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Brit...
British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
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British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
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A. S. Byatt
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- Updated: 02 Jun 2014
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Kirjandusfestivali HeadRead raames toimus Kirjanike Maja Musta laega saalis avalik vestlus tuntud ja tunnustatud briti kirjaniku A. S. Byattiga, mida juhtis tõl...
Kirjandusfestivali HeadRead raames toimus Kirjanike Maja Musta laega saalis avalik vestlus tuntud ja tunnustatud briti kirjaniku A. S. Byattiga, mida juhtis tõlkija ja kirjastaja Krista Kaer.
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Kirjandusfestivali HeadRead raames toimus Kirjanike Maja Musta laega saalis avalik vestlus tuntud ja tunnustatud briti kirjaniku A. S. Byattiga, mida juhtis tõlkija ja kirjastaja Krista Kaer.
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- published: 02 Jun 2014
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A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book
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- Duration: 6:52
- Updated: 29 May 2009
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A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book.
http://www.booklounge.ca/catalo...
A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book.
http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref;=video_yt_Byatt
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A.S. Byatt recently visited Toronto's Harbourfront Center to talk to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, The Childrens Book.
http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307398079&ref;=video_yt_Byatt
- published: 29 May 2009
- views: 7075
Interview With Author A.S. Byatt
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- Updated: 08 Oct 2009
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- published: 08 Oct 2009
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A.S. Byatt: The Children's Book | 92Y Readings
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- Duration: 74:15
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
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http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the bes...
http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the best thing Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece Possession...[It] superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Recorded October 29, 2009 at 92nd Street Y.
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http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London has called "easily the best thing Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece Possession...[It] superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Recorded October 29, 2009 at 92nd Street Y.
- published: 11 Jul 2012
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A.S. Byatt @ Passa Porta Festival 2013, Brussels
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- Updated: 04 Apr 2013
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A.S. Byatt in conversation with Ruth Joos (VRT - Radio1), during the international Passa Porta Festival of literature, Sunday 24 March at BOZAR.
A.S. Byatt in conversation with Ruth Joos (VRT - Radio1), during the international Passa Porta Festival of literature, Sunday 24 March at BOZAR.
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Cees Nooteboom in conversation with A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011
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- Duration: 57:13
- Updated: 12 Nov 2013
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Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poe...
Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poetry, essays and reportage. In the English-speaking world, Nooteboom is perhaps best known for his novel The Following Story, an elegant fable about love, travel, philosophy, science and selfhood, and Roads to Santiago, an intensely personal pilgrimage through the landscape, history and culture of Spain. Nooteboom's latest book The Foxes Come at Night (MacLehose Press) is a sequence of linked stories set in the islands and cities of the Mediterranean. Nooteboom discussed his life, work and travels with the Booker Prize-winning novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, a great admirer of his work.
wn.com/Cees Nooteboom In Conversation With A.S. Byatt World Literature Weekend 2011
Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed stylist whose works include novels, short stories, travel writing, poetry, essays and reportage. In the English-speaking world, Nooteboom is perhaps best known for his novel The Following Story, an elegant fable about love, travel, philosophy, science and selfhood, and Roads to Santiago, an intensely personal pilgrimage through the landscape, history and culture of Spain. Nooteboom's latest book The Foxes Come at Night (MacLehose Press) is a sequence of linked stories set in the islands and cities of the Mediterranean. Nooteboom discussed his life, work and travels with the Booker Prize-winning novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, a great admirer of his work.
- published: 12 Nov 2013
- views: 2310
Short film looking at A S Byatt's shortlisted novel, The Children's Book
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 27 Oct 2009
- views: 1607
Produced by the BBC for the Man Booker Prize 2009
Produced by the BBC for the Man Booker Prize 2009
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Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
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- Duration: 2:33
- Updated: 12 Jun 2015
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Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career remi...
Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career reminded her of the excitement of research and persuaded her not to turn her back on her life as a scientist.
Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children’s books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peek inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives.
‘Novel Thoughts’ was inspired by research at the University of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who interviewed 20 scientists for the ‘What Scientists Read’ project. She found that reading fiction can help scientists to see the bigger picture and be reminded of the complex richness of human experience. Novels can show the real stories behind the science, or trigger a desire in a young reader to change lives through scientific discovery. They can open up new worlds, or encourage a different approach to familiar tasks.
View the whole series: Novel Thoughts: What scientists read (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OJey8wqE7pyczqsQ8BFrx3)
Read about Novel Thoughts (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read)
Interviews by Jessica Penrose.
wn.com/Novel Thoughts 2 Clare Bryant On As Byatt’S Possession
Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how reading AS Byatt’s Possession at a crucial point in her early career reminded her of the excitement of research and persuaded her not to turn her back on her life as a scientist.
Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children’s books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peek inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives.
‘Novel Thoughts’ was inspired by research at the University of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who interviewed 20 scientists for the ‘What Scientists Read’ project. She found that reading fiction can help scientists to see the bigger picture and be reminded of the complex richness of human experience. Novels can show the real stories behind the science, or trigger a desire in a young reader to change lives through scientific discovery. They can open up new worlds, or encourage a different approach to familiar tasks.
View the whole series: Novel Thoughts: What scientists read (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OJey8wqE7pyczqsQ8BFrx3)
Read about Novel Thoughts (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read)
Interviews by Jessica Penrose.
- published: 12 Jun 2015
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Possession | A.S. Byatt
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- Updated: 15 Sep 2013
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Conversations on Making - Edmund De Waal and A S Byatt
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A.S. Byatt at Kepler's Books
A.S. Byatt discusses her book, "The Children's Book" at Kepler's Books. Oct. 23 2009. Her wit and charm comes through in this interview where she candidly discusses her book.
Conversations on Making - Edmund De Waal and A S Byatt
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- Updated: 14 May 2013
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A.S. Byatt at Kepler's Books
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- Updated: 22 Nov 2009
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A.S. Byatt discusses her book, "The Children's Book" at Kepler's Books. Oct. 23 2009. Her wit and charm comes through in this interview where she candidly discu...
A.S. Byatt discusses her book, "The Children's Book" at Kepler's Books. Oct. 23 2009. Her wit and charm comes through in this interview where she candidly discusses her book.
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A.S. Byatt discusses her book, "The Children's Book" at Kepler's Books. Oct. 23 2009. Her wit and charm comes through in this interview where she candidly discusses her book.
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Interview With Author A.S. Byatt
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A.S. Byatt: The Children's Book | 92Y Readings
http://www.92Y.org/VPC - A.S. Byatt reads from The Children's Book, a finalist for the Boo...
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A.S. Byatt @ Passa Porta Festival 2013, Brussels
A.S. Byatt in conversation with Ruth Joos (VRT - Radio1), during the international Passa P...
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Cees Nooteboom in conversation with A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011
Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, an acclaimed ...
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Short film looking at A S Byatt's shortlisted novel, The Children's Book
Produced by the BBC for the Man Booker Prize 2009
published: 27 Oct 2009
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Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
Professor Clare Bryant from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine explains how rea...
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Possession | A.S. Byatt
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Conversations on Making - Edmund De Waal and A S Byatt
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A.S. Byatt at Kepler's Books
A.S. Byatt discusses her book, "The Children's Book" at Kepler's Books. Oct. 23 2009. Her ...
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Lyrics list:lyrics
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Eyez
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Who's Booty
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As We Wept
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Yaz Bitti
Eyez
When it all goes down we will rise! [x5]
But you ain't seen nothing yet!
One vision, death has risen
To meet his majesty. The blasphemy is unforgiven
And through this alchemy of calvary, only one decision
I and I prophecy the truth and destroy the wicked
Millennial reign, surrender to the guillotine
Last breath, second death, sentenced to a murder scene
So when I'm gone, don't you act surprised
It's going down right in front of your eyes
When it all goes down we will rise!
But you ain't seen nothing yet! (Eyez)
This world!(Eyez) Your life!(Eyez)
But you ain't seen nothing yet!(Eyez)
Awake and scream all who sleep in the earth
Hear his voice in the grave, arise and step forth
And make your stand while men run for the hills
Fill the valley with blood and flood the killing fields
Keep laughing now, you're gonna regret it then
'Cause this day God will judge all the secrets of men
Mark my words and don't act surprised
It's going down right in front of you eyes
When it all goes down we will rise!
But you ain't seen nothing yet!(Eyez)
This world!(Eyez) Your life!(Eyez)
But you ain't seen nothing yet!(Eyez)
This will be the last time you will see me again
This will be the last time you ever see me again
One man is guilty and one man is not
And you will answer for yourself whether you like it or
not!
One man lives and the other man dies
It's going down right in front of your eyes
When it all goes down we will rise!
But you ain't seen nothing yet!(Eyez)
This world!(Eyez) Your life!(Eyez)
But you ain't seen nothing yet!
But you ain't seen nothing yet!
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'Walking Murphy's Law' Survives Snake And Spider Bites, Lightning Strike, In 4 Years
Edit WorldNews.com 26 Aug 2016
His father, Mike Cook, sees it another way.“He’s a walking Murphy’s law. I walk on the other side of the mall.” – Mike CookOn Aug ... 12, 2012, he was driving a sweeper truck for a construction crew as a storm approached ... He said he was knocked backward about 6 feet and rendered unconscious for up to a minute.The spider bite happened in April, when he was working as a truck driver ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba
Second Chinese Student Dies After Falling Victim To Telephone Scam
Edit WorldNews.com 26 Aug 2016
He kept a receipt ... According to Song's teacher and classmates, on that day, Song put his living expenses and family savings into the bank account for unknown reasons and in the afternoon he discovered that the money had vanished.He finally informed his parents but told them he was scammed only 2,000 yuan as he was afraid of their reaction....
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Is Syria And Libya The New Face Of Political Genocide?
Edit WorldNews.com 26 Aug 2016
As a result, extreme violence is delegated, reshaped and often invisible through rapacious institutions and destructive technologies ... Just as worse, and since the past and present become a key in interpreting and shaping the future, it appears that collective violence and political genocide that is instigated by the U.S....
photo: AP / Tolga Adanali, Depo
Turkey unveils 3rd Istanbul bridge linking Europe with Asia
Edit The Roanoke Times 26 Aug 2016
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey opened one of the world's largest bridges Friday designed to allow traffic to cross the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia and ease congestion in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan oversaw a ceremony inaugurating the $3 billion Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which is touted by its Turko-Italian developers as the world's broadest suspension bridge at 58.4 meters (192 feet) wide ... ... ....
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Tourist describes death, harrowing month in New Zealand bush
Edit US News 26 Aug 2016
Czech tourist Pavlina Pizova has described the death of her partner and the month she spent in the New Zealand wilderness after the couple set out on an ill-fated hike ... ....
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Peacock and Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny'
Edit The Washington Times 26 Aug 2016
PEACOCK AND VINE. ON WILLIAM MORRIS AND MARIANO FORTUNY. By A.S. Byatt. Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 192 pages. At the beginning of "Peacock and Vine," A.S. Byatt describes a visit to the Museo Fortuny in Venice. As she gloried in the watery aquamarine light of the city she writes, "I ... ....
8,000 seedlings planted for Warkworth Sands Woodlands restoration (Rio Tinto Coal Australia Pty Limited)
Edit Public Technologies 24 Aug 2016
8,000 seedlings have been planted this year as part of a significant regeneration programme by Rio Tinto's Mount Thorley Warkworth mine to increase the area of the critically endangered Warkworth Sands Woodlands ecological community ... Rio Tinto Principal Advisor Offsets Nel Byatt said 'Research shows that Warkworth Sands Woodlands can regenerate by itself if we simply stop impacts such as grazing....
The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes review – from Blake to the millennium bug
Edit The Guardian 19 Aug 2016
Since AS Byatt’s Possession won the 1990 Booker prize, we have seen many novels in which contemporary and historical narratives are interleaved; the device has proved especially attractive to writers who, like Byatt, are given to flourishes of erudition and who are drawn to its potential for formal experimentation ... As he tinkers with this “practical rebus”, he is plagued by strange thoughts....
Suffer the details for Byatt’s art
Edit The Charlotte Observer 16 Aug 2016
A.S. Byatt enthusiasm for artists William Morris and Mariano Fortuny can be intoxicating ... ....
NONFICTION Book review (Nonfiction): 'Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny'
Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 31 Jul 2016
Close your eyes and imagine you’re in Venice ... Byatt. Subscription Required....
What We're Reading This Summer
Edit The Atlantic 30 Jul 2016
Part-memoir, part-fitness journal, part-travelogue, the book narrates a period in the author’s life (from 2005 to 2006) as he trains for the New York Marathon ... that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as whole ... In addition to prose, the novel comprises poetry in the Victorian style, as well as diaries, academic scholarship, and letters—all Byatt’s fictional creations, though they feel authentic....
The stuff of life: how A S Byatt intertwined the lives of William Morris and ...
Edit New Statesman 27 Jul 2016
In Peacock & Vine, Byatt has turned works of art and their shade, texture, patina and heft into words ... How to evoke a colour in words? It is a task of daunting simplicity which A S Byatt attempts in her essay on the artist-designers William Morris and Mariano Fortuny ... Still, if anyone can turn words into shade, texture, patina, heft, it is Byatt ... His literary output was as prodigious as his craft....
This week's magazine | The English revolt
Edit New Statesman 20 Jul 2016
This is most obviously because countries that have adopted the euro – even those such as Greece, for which the IMF has predicted high unemployment at least until the 2040s – have no clear way out ... Scottish nationalists – like their counterparts in Catalonia – see the EU as an indispensable support for independence ... Indeed, Scotland’s vote makes it stand out as one of the most pro-EU countries in Europe....
The Shadow Convention for the GOP’s Future
Edit Politico 19 Jul 2016
CLEVELAND—It was mid-April when as many as 1,000 alumni of the most recent Republican administration descended on Dallas for a staff reunion to reminisce about sunnier times ... But few were as dark about the Republican Party’s future as former President Bush himself ... Instead, he has solidified himself as an erratic, underfunded and scattershot candidate, plagued by staff turmoil and missed opportunities....
Hedge Fund Insurers Risk Becoming Roadside Carcasses, S&P; Says
Edit Bloomberg 06 Jul 2016
Money managers entered the reinsurance business to gain access to permanent capital, in some cases more than $1 billion. They also sought a tax advantage by setting up operations in locations such as Bermuda ... and Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management, which shuttered after hedge fund startups pushed down reinsurance pricing ... BlackRock Inc. formed a Bermuda-based operation last year with the insurer that is now known as Chubb Ltd ... ....
Why a Hedge Fund Heavyweight Is Blasting Donald Trump on Trade
Edit The Street 01 Jul 2016
The firm's top five holdings as of March 31 were EMC (EMC) , Hess (HES) , Allergan (AGN) , Alcoa (AA) , and Citrix (CTXS) . ... Top donors of the group include a who's-who of hedge funders. Cliff Asness, the co-founder of AQR Capital Management; Bruce Kovner, the chairman of CAM Capital; and Michael Vlock, who runs the Pritzker family's investing office. ....
3 Ways to Survive the Next Crash
Edit Economy & Markets Daily 30 Jun 2016
Most on the outside tend to think of systems as mysterious, robot-driven, “black box” investment things ... The idea can be as simple as ... Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management (a quantitative/systematic hedge fund) explained why a strategic investment system is important ... Treasury bonds when it seems as if the world is ending ... As I mentioned, it’s too ......
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