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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”
Month: November 2017
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”
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”
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”
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”
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson, 4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897) was a Scottish writer. In 1851, she was invited by the publisher William Blackwood to contribute to the…… Read more “Margaret Oliphant”
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,”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
