<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Priya Hajela"><item><title>Annotation 35: Sophie’s  Choice by William Styron</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>I first read Sophie’s Choice in 1985, when I was eighteen years old. It was a birthday gift from my fifteen-year-old sister. Later, my sister, an English major in college, got the same paperback signed by Mr. Styron to whom she served dinner while...</excerpt></item><item><title>Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Elena Ferrante’s third book of the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, reads much longer than the first two. It continues the up and down waves in the lives of the major characters Lina and Elena, just like the first two books. The story b...</excerpt></item><item><title>Elena Ferrante The Story Continues</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Ferrante’s second book, The Story of a New Name begins with an important reveal that goes on to shape the voices in this book. While Ferrante still uses Elena’s voice as the primary one, in first person, she opens the door to delve a little into L...</excerpt></item><item><title>Elena Ferrante The Master Storyteller</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>My sister first introduced me to Elena Ferrante’s The Neapolitan Novels, told me that it was quick, light reading that would fit around my work schedule. I bought the four books and set upon them whenever I needed a distraction. The first book, My...</excerpt></item><item><title>What you see is what you touch and smell&amp;#8230;</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Anthony Doerr is a writer who started his writing career with short stories and progressed to novels.He has written several, About Grace, his Pulitzer Prize winning All the Light We Cannot See, Four Seasons in Rome and his most recent wonder – Clo...</excerpt></item><item><title>This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, essays on writing by Steve Almond is a very flavorful set of small plates, each tempered with humor and just a little bit of angst. Almond, in his role as a teacher of Creative Writing in an MFA program, has pu...</excerpt></item><item><title>Bharati Mukherjee, A Writer of Incredible Stories</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Bharati Mukherjee, born on July 27th, 1940, in Calcutta is considered the matriarch of diaspora fiction. Her book, The Middleman and Other Stories has been used as required reading for Freshmen at Drexel and many other universities. It won the Nat...</excerpt></item><item><title>When Breath Becomes Air And We Die</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Dr. Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon and Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospital, a graduate of Stanford University with multiple degrees, including two from Cambridge – he was everything hard driving, first generation Indian parents could ha...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Pale Blue Eye&amp;nbsp;</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The film The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling (as Edgar Allen Poe) is a story that takes place during Poe’s brief tenure at West Point Military Academy in 1830. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Louis Bayard,...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Indian art of giving away</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-indian-art-of-giving-away/</link><pubDate>October 1, 2022, 1:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-Philantrophy.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>There are ways and means to give and support, to care and to help. We must trust and believe, open our hearts and minds and do only as much as we wish to, or even nothing at all.
</excerpt></item><item><title>YOGA: IS IT WORTH THE E﻿FFORT?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/annotation-35-sophies-choice-by-william-styron/</link><pubDate>May 1, 2023, 1:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-33-300x160.jpeg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Yes, but only if you leave your ego at the door of the Yogashala. That is not only the prevailing philosophy but also the only way that yoga can be truly beneficial. Many die-hard Yoga practitioners have learned the basic principles of Yoga the ha...</excerpt></item></author></feed>