To Durkheim, the ‘sacred’ constituted that which society as a whole held apart, separate, in the realm of high-minded ideals. In contrast, the ‘profane’ is that which is everyday – the purview of individual people figuring out their normal lives.
What does it take to get knighted for your services to literature? For fantasy writer and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett, the answer is a body of work that also earned him the Carnegie Medal, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Pratchett is
While the four temperaments may not be grounded in amazing science, they do describe consistent personalities you can observe in the world around you.
Celebrated for her humanistic, domestic, and gorgeously observed novels about Baltimore’s middle- and working-class families, Anne Tyler is the kind of single-minded writer who has found her niche and writes it very, very well.
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