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Entries from October 2008

Tiger triumphant

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Congratulations to Aravind Adiga for his Booker win last night for his debut novel, The White Tiger. For those of you who missed it, you can find my interview with Aravind from earlier this year here. And if you want to sample his novel, you can hear him reading from it here and here.

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Tags: literature · podcasts

19. What is wellbeing?

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

 
icon for podpress  Mark Vernon: Wellbeing [14:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mark Vernon has just brought out a book on wellbeing in a new series of which he’s general editor. But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill self-help series.
The series is called The Art of Living  and it’s published by independent philosophy specialist, Acumen. Their stated aim is to “open up philosophy’s riches to a wider public once […]

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Tags: religion and belief · science and philosophy