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    Month: November 2017

    Breaking through memories into desire

    Dear Chris, In After Kathy Acker (2017), you are after a woman who was a professed self-mythologizer. Acker liked to play hide-and-seek, and buried herself in a…… Read more “Breaking through memories into desire”

    30 de November de 201730 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Chris Kraus

    Chris Kraus (1955) is an American writer and filmmaker. She has  a BA from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). After working as a journalist for five years, she moved…… Read more “Chris Kraus”

    30 de November de 201730 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Hope is a wound

    Dear Marianne, The Weight of Things (2015), translated by Adrian Nathan West (Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse, 1978) is this odd thing: something in-between a horror story, a…… Read more “Hope is a wound”

    28 de November de 201729 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Marianne Fritz

    Marianne Fritz (14 December 1948 – 1 October 2007) was an Austrian writer. She completed her high school studies and received training as an office worker. Fritz worked as…… Read more “Marianne Fritz”

    28 de November de 201728 de November de 2017 by juliana

    A woman with a mission

    Dear Margaret, In your novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866), your protagonist seems to have set herself the difficult task of trying to overcome the confines of Victorian views…… Read more “A woman with a mission”

    27 de November de 201720 de March de 2018 by juliana

    Margaret Oliphant

    Margaret Oliphant (also known as Mrs. Oliphant; born Margaret Oliphant Wilson, married name Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant; 4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897) was a Scottish…… Read more “Margaret Oliphant”

    27 de November de 201723 de October de 2019 by juliana

    Don’t ever wait for the swallows,

    Dear Larissa, Your short story collection Swallow Summer, translated by Lyn Marven (2016. Originally, Schwalbensommer, 2003) made me think of tracks made of air: we might know they…… Read more “Don’t ever wait for the swallows,”

    23 de November de 201723 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Larissa Boehning

    Larissa Boehning (1971) is a German writer. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies, Art History and Philosophy, and studied in Lüneburg and Berlin. She…… Read more “Larissa Boehning”

    23 de November de 201723 de November de 2017 by juliana

    This youth too long has heard the break of waters in a land of change

    “A Tale – Louise Bogan This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what suns can…… Read more “This youth too long has heard the break of waters in a land of change”

    17 de November de 2017 by juliana

    The Classics Spin #16

    Hello, lovely readers! It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! Participants post a list of 20 books on their Classics Club list. On Friday morning (November, 17th), a random…… Read more “The Classics Spin #16”

    13 de November de 201717 de November de 2017 by juliana

    She attacked first

    Dear Oriana, You had never wanted your life story to be written. “I have never authorized, nor will I ever authorize, a biography,” you said once. So,…… Read more “She attacked first”

    6 de November de 201710 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Oriana Fallaci

    Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, novelist, and political interviewer. She worked as a war correspondent covering Vietnam, the Indo-Pakistani War, and the Middle…… Read more “Oriana Fallaci”

    6 de November de 20176 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Fire burn, and caldron bubble

    Dear Ronald, “The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present” is an ambitious and detailed research on a wide variety of beliefs about…… Read more “Fire burn, and caldron bubble”

    6 de November de 20176 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Ronald Hutton

    Ronald Hutton (1953) is an English historian. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at Oxford University. He is professor of British folklore, pre-Christian religion and contemporary Paganism at the University of Bristol. Books The Royalist War…… Read more “Ronald Hutton”

    6 de November de 20176 de November de 2017 by juliana

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