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The World According to Tao (and Wesley Chu)

Published on : 3 October, 20163 October, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

In traditional Chinese philosophy, the Tao is the intuitive knowing of “life” that cannot be grasped full-heartedly as just a concept but is known nonetheless through actual living experience of one’s everyday being.* That’s not the Tao I’m talking about. Not really. The Tao I’m referring to is […]

LitStack’s ‘In Case You Missed It’ Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

Published on : 21 February, 201421 February, 2014 Published by : Sharon Browning

The Lives of Tao Wesley Chu Angry Robot Release Date: April 30, 2013 ISBN 978-0-85766-329-0 Ok, raise your hand if you’ve ever wondered, or ever suspected, or even mused that perhaps throughout our history, humanity has been influenced by beings outside our gene pool. Admit it, you have, right? Maybe […]

On this day, October 20, in 1958, actor Viggo Mortensen was born in New York City. Although we could press the literary connection by pointing out that he is a published poet, we are really celebrating his birthday because, well, he’s Viggo Mortensen, who, among other roles, stepped in last minute to play Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, who chipped his tooth while filming and wanted to superglue it back in so they could keep shooting, who deflected a live dagger in a memorable fight scene, who campaigned to have Aragorn speak more Elvish in the films, who adopted the two horses he rode in the films because he had bonded with them… Today, he turns 62.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

The World According to Tao (and Wesley Chu)

LitStack’s ‘In Case You Missed It’ Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

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