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Daily inspiration from Paulo Coelho. His new novel, Manuscript Found in Accra, is on sale Tuesday.

How do you define beauty? Paulo Coelho had a few ideas on the subject in his new novel, Manuscript Found in Accra, out next week.

Paulo Coelho’s new novel, Manuscript Found in Accra, comes out next week, and we’re spreading the love.

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Politics & Prose goes to the Ballpark for Nats vs. Marlins

It’s widely known that Thursday afternoons in spring are made for two things: playing hookey from work and going to a baseball game. Start your spring by joining Politics & Prose and best-selling author Christine Brennan, USA Today’s national sports columnist and commentator for ABC News, PBS NewsHour, NPR and CNN, for an afternoon of burgers and baseball as the Nationals host the Miami Marlins on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Christine will be available to chat, sign books, and be quizzed on sports trivia.

The Politics & Prose group will meet at Nationals Park in the family picnic area at 2:30 p.m. for a lunch of burgers and hot dogs, followed by a 4:05 p.m. game, with right field baseline reserved seating. And if you’re playing hookey from work, don’t worry: we probably won’t get put on the Jumbotron.

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Pretty damn cool.

Happy Saturday everyone! Our goal for the day: do something that makes us as happy as Louie C.K. visiting Russ & Daughters for the first time.

(Our sister imprint, Schocken Books, are the proud publishers of the freshly minted New York Times bestseller, Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built. You can read an excerpt from it here.)

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The Rumpus: How would you describe the relationship between Reality Hunger and How Literature Saved My Life?

David Shields: I like my friend Jonathan Raban’s description. He calls it a surprising sequel. It’s a sequel, but it’s maybe not the sequel you expect. I think, to a certain degree, Reality Hunger burned literature down to the ground for myself, and apparently for some other people, too. I think How Literature Saved My Life kind of reconstructs literature, for me, and I hope for others.

I also think of the book as an attempt to practice what Reality Hunger theorizes about. It’s much more visceral to me, much more vivid, much more vulnerable. It’s an attempt, I hope, to anatomize or embody or exemplify the things I talked about in Reality Hunger.

The Rumpus talks with David Shields, author of How Literature Saved My Life (Knopf, 2013)