Hints and tips:
...The last thing I bought and loved was Beastie Boys Book, by Michael Diamond and Adam Horowitz. In 2010, I randomly met [Beastie Boy member] Adam Yauch in Venice....
...Will they read it like [we read] the Austro-Hungarian writers, Zweig, Musil and Joseph Roth, with this nostalgia of a world that is gone?...
...I’ve read Michael Pollan’s book but I’m leaning more towards this one....
...Hailed as a genius by fellow Austro-Hungarian Stefan Zweig, among others, Roth was one of the mostly highly respected German-language writers of his day....
...The mayor, Michael Ludwig, likes to draw a direct line between his administration and that of his radical forefathers in the 1920s....
...Oakley, who comes across as serious and thoughtful, was influenced by Stefan Zweig’s novella Fear, “about a woman, fear and paranoia”....
...Bell, who has died at the age of 82, went on to translate Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, ETA Hoffmann, Stefan Zweig and many other German-language authors....
...Letter from Louis J Cutrona, Jr, in response to Tussle for tech supremacy powers US-China animosity David Zweig, in characterising the US-China trade dispute as a ‘tussle’, misses a crucial issue....
...In his introduction, Tonkin recalls an interview he conducted with the German-born author WG “Max” Sebald, (no 97, The Emigrants, translated by Michael Hulse) shortly before Sebald’s death in a car accident...
...“Stefan Zweig just tastes fake,” wrote the critic Michael Hofmann seven years ago. “He’s the Pepsi of Austrian writing.”...
...His outburst was prompted by news that his former security adviser Michael Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his Russia contacts....
...Zweig argued that the lack of stocks to pick matters a lot, and I am inclined to agree with him....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Twitter: @Skapinker...
...Seksik’s bestselling novel is a tender and tragic dramatisation of Zweig’s final months....
...Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, translated and edited by Michael Hofmann, Granta, RRP£25, 576 pages Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth, by Dennis Marks, Notting Hill Editions, RRP£10, 132 pages...
...Michael Pennington makes Furtwängler a sensitive, passionate but aloof character; David Horovitch brings pain to Arnold’s fury. Between them they wrench your sympathies this way and that....
...Follow Zweig into exile and suicide?...
...“Over the years we had looked at various novellas, and two that interested us were Hjalmar Soderberg’s Doctor Glass and Stefan Zweig’s Leporella....
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