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41. In Nobel Speech, Doris Lessing Blames The Internet For A Decline In Book Readin
Last week doris lessing complained about a similar phenomenon on a much larger scale. In the speech she prepared to accept this years Nobel Prize in
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Most of the speech has nothing to do with technology, and instead involves scenes of poor people in remote parts of Africa who, despite the odds, hold on to a love and respect for books. One woman clings to a torn section of Anna Karenina, Her words reminded me of another recent antitechnology outburst by a great writer, John Updike, who at a book fair last year complained that book digitization is destroying reading, Proponents of book digitization argue that it will one day help bring books like Anna Karenina reported on Ars Technica.

43. Doris Lessing Newsletter
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Welcome to the website of the ' Doris Lessing Newsletter '. In continuous publication since 1976, with over 300 subscribers - individuals and libraries- World-Wide.
The Doris Lessing Newsletter is published for the Doris Lessing Society by The Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Campus.

44. YouTube - Doris Lessing Nobel Prize - Oh Christ
British writer doris lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism and politics,
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47. Doris Lessing - The Compulsion To Write - Writers On Writing
When asked by Bill Moyers why she continued to write, doris lessing said, I have to. It is what I do. Writing can be a delicious compulsionone that
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Doris Lessing For many years, Doris Lessing's name hovered near the top of the list of Greatest Living Writers Never to Have Won a Nobel Prize for Literature. That oversight was corrected in October 2007 when the Swedish Academy recognized the 87-year-old author for her "skepticism, fire and visionary power." Born in Persia (now Iran) and brought up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Lessing has spent most of her adult life in London, with frequent visits to the U.S. for readings and book tours. Though she herself fiercely resists all labels, several have been attached to her over a long career: social activist ("Movements get taken over by the hysterics," she once said), communist ("The whole thing turned out to be a dream"), feminist ("We don't seem to go in very much for self-criticism"), and mystic ("I'm so afraid of religion: its capacity for murder is terrifying").

48. Net Dumbs Us Down: Nobel Prize Winner - Web - Technology - Smh.com.au
doris lessing uses her Nobel prize acceptance speech to blast the internet, saying it has created a world where people know nothing.
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Jean Cowen (left), literature Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's daughter, and her children Anna (centre) and Susannah smile in front of a portrait of Lessing before a reading of Lessing's lecture "On Not Winning the Nobel Prize" at the Old Stock Exchange in Stockholm.
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New Nobel laureate Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to rail against the internet, saying it has "seduced a whole generation into its inanities" and created a world where people know nothing. Lessing, 88, who won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, lamented the apparent discrepancy in the hunger for books between developing countries like Zimbabwe and the rest of the world. In August, Elton John, another creative type for whom the internet has opened up a sea of fresh competition, lambasted the web for stifling creativity, even calling for it to be shut down.

49. Nobel Prize Winner Lessing Warns Against 'inane' Internet | The Guardian | Guard
Nobel prize winner lessing warns against inane internet and know nothing of the world, the new Nobel laureate novelist doris lessing warned yesterday.
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50. Malaspina Great Books - Doris Lessing (1919)
In recent years doris lessing s relationship with the new Zimbabwe has remained somewhat troubled, with works such as her accounts of her travels in Africa
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51. The Adventures Of Doris Lessing - The New York Review Of Books
An article by John Leonard from The New York Review of Books, November 30, 2006.
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Doris Lessing Time Bites: Views and Reviews by Doris Lessing HarperCollins, 376 pp., $27.95 The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing HarperCollins, 282 pp., $24.95
It is as if some gauze or screen has been dissolved away from life, that was dulling it, and like Miranda you want to say, What a brave new world! You don't remember feeling like this, because, younger, habit or the press of necessity prevented. You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes. Time Bites Time Bites is her first collection of articles, lectures, book reviews, and broadcasts, The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog is her twenty-fifth novel. Nor does the fact that she's four inches shorter than she used to be make her a shrinking violet. "Old" is as nice as she gets in

52. Doris (May) Lessing Biography
doris lessing A Bibliography by Catharina Ipp, Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand Department of Bibliography, 1967; doris lessing A Checklist
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Find all books written by Doris Lessing on Amazon.com Pseudonym: Jane Somers. Nationality: British. Born: Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, 1919; moved with her family to England, then to Banket, Southern Rhodesia, 1924. Education: Dominican Convent School, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 1926-34. Career: Au pair, Salisbury, 1934-35; telephone operator and clerk, Salisbury, 1937-39; typist, 1946-48; journalist, Cape Town Guardian , 1949; moved to London, 1950; secretary, 1950; member of the Editorial Board, New Reasoner (later New Left Review Awards: Agent: Jonathan Clowes Ltd., Iron Bridge House, Bridge Approach, London, NW1 8BD, England.
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53. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore - Autori - Doris Lessing
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54. Q&A With Doris Lessing, Awarded Nobel Prize For Literature -- Newsday.com
For 25 years, doris lessing has lived in a small row house in a North London neighborhood that abuts the cemetery where Sigmund Freud is buried.
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Writer Doris Lessing, 86, sits in her home in a quiet block of north London. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." AP Photo
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For 25 years, Doris Lessing has lived in a small row house in a North London neighborhood that abuts the cemetery where Sigmund Freud is buried. Each morning, the 87-year-old Nobel prize winner rises at 5 a.m. and feeds several hundred birds. She then returns home, makes breakfast and is usually at her desk by 9, where she writes because, as she puts it in her plain and simple terms, "it is what I do."
Q: It's tempting to read this novel as with all speculative fiction as a parable of our times. But you have resisted this instinct in the past. Do you still feel that way?
No.

55. Doris Lessing On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online
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56. Southbank Centre > Literature & Spoken Word
Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, doris lessing makes her first public appearance since winning this prestigious award.
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57. Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize For Literature - Boing Boing
doris lessing has won the Nobel Prize for literature this is one that I can lay claim to twice, for she is, in some sense, both Canadian and a science
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Posted by Cory Doctorow , October 11, 2007 6:53 AM permalink Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for literature this is one that I can lay claim to twice, for she is, in some sense, both Canadian and a science fiction writer. Woo! Go team!
The 87-year-old has been honoured with the 10m kronor (Â£763,000) award for her life's work over a 57-year career... Shortly after the Nobel announcement, her agent Jonathan Clowes told the Agence France Presse news agency: "We are absolutely delighted because it is so well deserved. She doesn't know yet. "She's out shopping and we are trying to get in touch with her before she discovers it in the news." Link Photo credit: Doris lessing 20060312.jpg is a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike photo taken by Elke Wetzig and hosted on the Wikimedia Commons posted in: Book Favorite this! Send this to a Friend Older SimCity adds global warming to the mix Newer Fully Loaded chair made of shotgun shells
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58. Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture: On Not Winning The Nobel Prize | LISNews
An English professor sent me this link to doris lessing s Nobel Prize Lecture, On not winning the Nobel Prize . It s really an extraordinary speech,
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An English professor sent me this link to Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize Lecture, " On not winning the Nobel Prize " - . It's really an extraordinary speech, one that deserves to be heard by librarians everywhere.
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise ... but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us â for good and for ill. It is our stories, the storyteller, that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, what we are at our best, when we are our most creative. Technorati Tags: Books International Literacy Array Bookmark/Search this post with:

59. ITworld.com - Blog Insights: Doris Lessing And The Internet: "We Never Thought T
The tech blogs have been abuzz with criticism of British writer doris lessing s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in which she referred to the.
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The tech blogs have been abuzz with criticism of British writer Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in which she referred to the "inanities" of the Internet. Her entire speech is reprinted in the Guardian
TechCrunch misses the mark on the issue, suggesting that we take the speech in context, that is, as "the dithering of an ignorant old woman." Hardly. Her speech was both eloquent and thoughtful, and served to put a mirror up to the face of the modern Internet-age society. Any major paradigm shift, revolution, or innovation, no matter how great the benefit, still has flaws, and we would do well to look at them and acknowledge them. The blogger does make the good point that the Web does contain substance, but then goes way off into left-field by suggesting that Wikipedia is an example of such substance.
Although some may perceive her speech as the ramblings of a Luddite, in fact, she calls the Internet an "amazing revolution" and compares it to the printing press, saying that when the press was invented, society never stopped to ask what printed books would do to change society, and now, the same thing is happening with the Internet. There's no doubt that the Internet has changed society, and has brought much good, and with it, a lot of negatives. But as with the printed book, we have to take the bad with the good.

60. Doris Lessing's Road To The Nobel - TIME
The 88year-old author of The Golden Notebook is an inexhaustible and defiantly unique literary phenomenon.
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