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The Politics of Fiction
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak talks about how reading books and writing fiction have chnaged her life.
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Elif Shafak: The Politics of Fiction
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Elif Shafak talks about how reading books and writing fiction have chnaged her life.
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Joanne "J.K." Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
June 5, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Rowling addresses the Harvard graduates of 2008, teaching them important lessons she wished she had known 21 years ago.
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Ursula Le Guin: A Left-Handed Commencement Address
May 22, 1983 (almost 41 years ago)Ursula K. Le Guin urges the women of the graduating class of 1983 at Mills College to see past the common definitions and notions of success and live life on their own terms.
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Elif Shafak: Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the...
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