Andreas Brandtner

„The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.“ (Huxley) Tweets on politics, ethics, PR: @ABrandtner

[Andreas Brandtner @Brandtner_lit]

@Rainmaker1973 Unfassbar

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Stuck inside for the foreseeable future? Entertain yourself with some of our more social-distance-friendly recommendations, like queuing up the pianist Eunice Norton’s recording of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” on YouTube. https://t.co/GFb48LgnJg

[Andreas Brandtner @Brandtner_lit]

Wahrscheinlich war Musik überall dabei in den antiken Kulturen. Aber wie klang das? Absolut faszinierend : Forscher haben es tatsächlich geschafft, antike griechische Musik zu rekonstruieren, spiel- und hörbar zu machen. Das Ergebnis hier bei Aeon: https://t.co/ElpPCT1Bhu

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

What kind of person writes with a manual typewriter? https://t.co/8tHjhJDoHs

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.”

55 years ago today, Sartre became the first person to decline the Nobel Prize. His magnificent explanation of why https://t.co/mH7LCpQtbU

[Andreas Brandtner @Brandtner_lit]

As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? Reading in a Whole New Way https://t.co/YaqHCHxQ9Q via @SmithsonianMag

[Nautilus Magazine @NautilusMag]

"How many thousands of stories does a child hear, cre­ate, and read as she grows into adulthood? Perhaps hundreds of thousands." https://t.co/8eqIdHP5f9

[Nautilus Magazine @NautilusMag]

To explore loss and mystery, novelist Nell Freudenberger journeyed into the atomic world. https://t.co/lZXvu3Fklo

[DLR_next @DLR_next]

Weil gefragt wurde, warum Meteoriten immer genau in der Mitte von Einschlagskratern landen und wie groß da die Wahrscheinlichkeit ist: Angesichts von 510 Millionen Quadratkilometern Erdoberfläche stehen wir da auch vor einem Rätsel!

[meta bene @meta_bene]

Nachtrag zur Debatte

[Andreas Brandtner @Brandtner_lit]

“How to Write Your Way Through the Middle” by @felsull https://t.co/GVLq0bKZYD

[Miku @miku85335434]

Die einen Bücher liest man,
um seine Zeit zu verstehen.

Die anderen Bücher liest man, um seine Zeit zu verlassen.

Und einige Bücher liest man,
um Zeit überhaupt zu vergessen.

[Open Culture @openculture]

A Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s Oldest & Longest-Running Science Fiction Magazine (Since 1926) https://t.co/ZD5Ad0l5Fc

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The Berlin-based cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s new book, “Parallel Lives,” is a dazzling and disorienting collection of short stories detail the cartoonist’s interactions with the future: https://t.co/1nTLFQgElU

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"American literature no longer means literature written by Americans, for Americans, about America ... Foreign is no longer foreign," writes @arbitrix: https://t.co/fZ8uUP5Dk6

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.”

Hemingway's advice on writing: https://t.co/uwCQ7suJqa

[Open Culture @openculture]

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet https://t.co/s1qUXAlNrv

[SZ Kultur @SZ_Kultur]

Sich wegen rechter Positionen von Uwe Tellkamp zu distanzieren, ist überflüssig. Nur im dauernden Streits lassen sich Ängste kleinarbeiten. https://t.co/JiRRjd9h2s

[Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp]

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Die Haltung, die in Äußerungen von Autoren des Hauses zum Ausdruck kommt, ist nicht mit der des Verlags zu verwechseln. #Tellkamp

[Open Culture @openculture]

Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript:

Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery? https://t.co/b494foUmFt