Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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We Are What We Read

We Are What We Read

A poet, a writer, and a mythical bird.... let me tell you a story from olden times....

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Horseman and Simurgh the mythical bird, Harvard Art Museum

‘Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges passionately believed in this. Dreams were important, revelatory. They set us free, they connected separate worlds—the one we live in and another one of endless possibilities.

Born in 1899 in Buenos Aire…

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