MY NAME IS RED OrhanPamuk

A Pinterest Board (or several): Those who attended this month's discussion liked the idea of sharing images relating to My Name is Red. The question is, do we keep this board private? I think that is what we want. Right now the board is locked. I will need your Pinterest link if you have one, or yo

The Master is asked what distinguishes a great miniaturist from an ordinary one. He replies that in order to determine how ‘genuine’ a young painter is, he would ask 3 questions. 1. “Has he come to believe, under the sway of recent custom as well as the influence of the Chinese and the European Fra

Here is Orhan Pamuk himself, speaking about the poetry of the everyday: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/231

This book is a murder mystery set in the world of Ottoman miniature painting and in my opinion really gets into the mind and heart of a miniature painter. It’s as if the author Orhan Pamuk himself has the soul of a miniature painter and it spoke directly to me. There is even some interesting tech