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Litteraturhuset i Bergen er en ikke-kommersiell stiftelse og har som formål å formidle og vekke interesse for litteratur og lesning, samt stimulere til debatt om samfunnsaktuelle spørsmål. Huset åpnet dørene 31. januar 2013 og består av fem rom viet arrangementer og litteraturformidling, bokhandel, kontorlokaler, kafé og brasseri. Vi leirer også ut skriveplass til forfattere og skribenter i Skrivestua.
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Ayn Rand
"The very best I've ever read, my favorite thing in all world literature (and that includes all the heavy classics) is a novelette called Calumet Kby Merwin-Webster," Rand wrote in 1945. The book was famous then, but if you haven't heard of it, allow Chicago magazine to outline the plot: "Calumet K is a quaint, endearingly Midwestern novel about the building of a grain elevator ... It's a procedural about large-scale agricultural production." If that sounds like something you'd want to check out, you can read it here.
Ray Bradbury
Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury's favorite books, which he discussed during a 2003 interview with Barnes & Noble when he was 83, are somewhat unexpected. Among them, Bradbury said, were "The collected essays of George Bernard Shaw, which contain all of the intelligence of humanity during the last hundred years and perhaps more," books written by Loren Eisley, "who is our greatest poet/essayist of the last 40 years," and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: "Quite obviously its impact on my life has lasted for more than 50 years."
Jane Austen
The author of classics like Pride and Prejudice and Emma was herself a voracious reader of books, poetry, and plays, including The Corsair by Lord Byron, Madame de Genlis's Olimpe and Theophile, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe. A clear favorite, though, was Samuel Richardson's book Sir Charles Grandison.