![]() ![]() ![]() It's a room full of believers, through the word, in ambiguity, in beauty and in trying to see the other person's point of view even when that's hard. ![]() It's international culture it's compassionate culture it's activist culture. now we're hearing a lot about the need to protect 'culture.' Well this tonight is culture. So the question at the heart of the matter is pretty simple: Do we respond to fear with exclusion and negative projection and violence? Or do we take that ancient great leap of faith and do our best to respond with love? And with faith in the idea that what seems other is actually not other at all, but just us on a different day. Noting the disruptive period we are currently living through, he said: "If you haven't noticed, we live in a strange time. and also especially all of the booksellers who sold it." In his acceptance speech, Saunders expressed his gratitude to several people, including "all the critics who wrote about the book- all of them. Last night in London, George Saunders won the £50,000 (about $66,095) Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House), becoming the second American author to win the award in its 48-year history. ![]()
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