Brian Collins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Brian Collins

"Legends" by Amy Lowell (1874–1925) changed the face of literature with kaleidoscopic, imagist poems. She saw that legends give us tools for working out who we are and what we want. And they move us in the very same ways that they moved our ancestors. https://t.co/LZiT5oGz9F https://t.co/qFE4kOz6xY

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Before Dune, before Star Wars, there were books that mesmerized me as a teenager: Foundation by Issac Asimov. “It took awhile for the world to be ready for Foundation, and that age has finally arrived,” David Goyer, the producer believes. He may be right. https://youtu.be/tmv92GzD0pY https://t.co/1hrIxOukfG

Brian Collins

"Legends" by Amy Lowell (1874–1925) changed the face of literature with kaleidoscopic, imagist poems. She saw that legends give us tools for working out who we are and what we want. And they move us in the very same ways that they moved our ancestors. https://t.co/LZiT5oGz9F https://t.co/qFE4kOz6xY

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I once visited Scotland in the summer with Virginia Wolf, flew a sea of stars with Arthur C. Clarke, escaped a cyclops with Homer, learned to teach with bell hooks, dazzled by purple with Alice Walker and took a cyclone to Oz with Olimpia Zagnoli. All in one room. I🧡my library. https://t.co/860UVMk48U

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Henry Timms leads Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and created GivingTuesday, a global philanthropic movement that generates billions of dollars for good causes around the world. He credits success to the use of “new power,” the full opposite of old. https://t.co/Tb13o6PjwJ

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Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. Even more timely sixty years later. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/business/rachel-carsons-lessons-50-years-after-silent-spring.html https://t.co/WLGpJlqdIi

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I discovered Dune at 14. Frank Herbert spent 5 years researching, writing and editing it. It would go on to inspire more books, Star Wars, 2 movies, 2 TV miniseries and, shamelessly, Game of Thrones (which George Martin admits). So here's what my Dune looked like. In the 1970s. https://t.co/UNipDlIIZ9

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Martin Amis, influential author of Money and London Fields, was among a celebrated group of novelists including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan & Julian Barnes, whose works defined the 1980s British literary scene. Immensely quotable, I loved his later writing. https://t.co/fxD3xhavgs https://t.co/X47Oi2NpYN

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"Never give up. No one knows what’s going to happen next." - Frank L. Baum After assuming it was lost, I just found my copy of the @olimpiazagnoli Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It remains as wonderful a book today as when it first arrived years ago. Thank you, Olimpia, for all of it. https://t.co/z8eSke4Xlb

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If you want to buy a book on design this year, buy one that will reshape the way you think for the better. If you buy Design Emergency and don't think it's all that, fine - I'll buy your copy for a student of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6RTySZd-U Order here: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Emergency-Alice-Rawsthorn/dp/1838664270 https://twitter.com/alicerawsthorn/status/1529356099689893888