Tag: Cody Fewston

by CG FEWSTON January 24, 2014
Fiction

The Stranger (1946) by Albert Camus

The Stranger or L’Etranger (1946) by Albert Camus (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957) is translated from the French in my edition of the book by Matthew Ward.

by CG FEWSTON January 23, 2014
Fiction

The Collector (1963) by John Fowles

Fowles is able to do what most other authors only dream of with the two narrative voices that are as distinct and profound as the other, illuminating the story from mere words on a page to a true memory that is just as haunting in one form of action as it is in its recondite social commentary.

by CG FEWSTON December 29, 2013
Fiction

The Complete Short Stories (1987) by Ernest Hemingway

“There was nothing to do about his father, and he had thought it all through many times. The handsome job the undertaker had done on his father’s face had not blurred in his mind and all the rest of it was quite clear, including the responsibilities.”

by CG FEWSTON December 19, 2013
Non-Fiction

What is Art? (1899) by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy writes: ”But what is this beauty which forms the subject-matter of art? How is it defined? What is it?

”As is always the case, the more cloudy and confused the conception conveyed by a word, with the more aplomb and self-assurance do people use that word, pretending that what is understood by it is so simple and clear that it is not worth while even to discuss what it actually means.”

by CG FEWSTON December 15, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

Quản trị rủi ro giá nông sản – nhìn từ thị trường cà phê Việt Nam (2013) by Nguyen Hoang My Phuong

Coffee in Vietnam is also focused around growing Robusta and Arabica, two of the major kinds of coffee favored in the world market.

by CG FEWSTON December 11, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. II: Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell

The Masks of God: Vol. II, Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell is again one of those marathons of the mind.

by CG FEWSTON November 28, 2013
Fiction Pictures

The Spies of Warsaw (2008) by Alan Furst

From there, the reader follows Mercier as he sways a German named Halbach to spy against his country. By book’s end, Mercier is able to smuggle top secret documents out of Germany but is promoted as punishment and ordered out of the country.

by CG FEWSTON November 23, 2013
Non-Fiction

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) by Robin Wright

”The Constitutional Rebellion of 1905-1911 forced the weak Qajar dynasty to agree to Iran’s first constitution and parliament. Foreshadowing the 1979 revolution, the revolt was launched by the same powerful troika–the clergy, bazaar merchants, and the intelligentsia–that would come together again later in the century. Their goal was to curtail the monarchy’s power.”

by CG FEWSTON November 15, 2013
Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

Techno-Culture and the Future of Education

Immediately there is a question of metaphor in the title itself. ”A day made of glass” has an untold number of connotations. First, glass can either be extremely durable (as advertised in the video) but it can also be fragile. The future itself, as presented in the video, would be in a delicate state, or flux, of durability and destruction.

by CG FEWSTON November 13, 2013
Fiction Pictures

50 Great Short Stories (1952) edited by Milton Crane

The collection starts with a bang with ”The Garden Party” (1922) by Katherine Mansfield and then tumbles its way through some well-known stories that are usually read in high school and college. There’s Hemingway’s ”The Three-Day Blow” (1925), E.M. Forster’s ”The Other Side of the Hedge” (1947), Henry James’s ”Brooksmith” (1892), Rudyard Kipling’s ”The Courting of Dinah Shadd” (1899) and Alexander Poushkin’s ”The Shot” (1894) translated by T. Keane.

by CG FEWSTON October 23, 2013
Fiction Film Pictures Videos

The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The mystery begins when Mary Morstan (in Chapter 2) tells Holmes and Watson about the disappearance of her father, Captain Morstan, and the arrival of a pearl each year for six years.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”