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Writer Felix Cheong is releasing a new anthology 9 years after 'retiring' from poetry
Singaporean writer Felix Cheong is back with an anthology nine years after he announced his retirement from poetry. As to why he published another poetry collection despite having “retired” from the genre, Cheong said: ““I wanted to leave poetry but poetry has never left me. The 53-year-old last released a poetry collection – Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems – in 2009.
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Singaporean author wrote her debut novel travelling around the world
Singaporean author Amanda Lee Koe recently made the news for her debut novel being picked up by renowned American publisher Doubleday. She shared the process behind the book, which included travelling to various international cities and inadvertently writing in the middle of a lallang grass field in rural Thailand. Her debut novel, titled Delayed Rays of A Star, follows the interconnecting lives of three actresses across the 20th century in famous cities such as Beijing, Berlin, Paris and Los
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25 books out in November that you won’t want to miss
We don’t know about you, but we have big plans this month. We’re going to watch a ton of November Netflix arrivals,…
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10 fictional women in literature who are eternally enigmatic
The best literary pieces are eternal because the message they bring never dies or because the characters born out of the stories we remember, just as we would remember old friends. While some we never forget because they made us laugh or fall in love, there are some female literary characters whom we can never forget because they are eternally enigmatic. A door left to slam shut will not go by unnoticed, once we read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain because it will remind us of Clavdia Chaucha
