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    Month: June 2020

    What would you do if you broke bread and blood came out?

    Dear Gayl, In Eva’s Man (1976), we follow Eva Medina Canada, a 43-year-old woman who has been convicted for murdering her lover, Davis Carter, by poisoning him with…… Read more “What would you do if you broke bread and blood came out?”

    23 de June de 2020 by juliana

    Gayl Jones

    Gayl Jones (November 23, 1949) is an African-American writer. She graduated from Connecticut College, in 1971, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In 1973, she…… Read more “Gayl Jones”

    23 de June de 202023 de June de 2020 by juliana

    We are speechless animals letting ourselves be destroyed

    Dear Katherine, In “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939), the eponymous piece from your collection of three novellas, we follow twenty-four-year-old Miranda, as she falls ill during the…… Read more “We are speechless animals letting ourselves be destroyed”

    16 de June de 2020 by juliana

    Seven days, a handful of books, and one black square

    “She saw herself for an obscene sore in all their lives, at all costs to be hidden. She understood, even while she resented. It would have been…… Read more “Seven days, a handful of books, and one black square”

    9 de June de 202010 de June de 2020 by juliana

    Katherine Anne Porter

    Katherine Anne Porter (born Callie Russell Porter; May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American writer. Her mother died in 1892, when Porter was two…… Read more “Katherine Anne Porter”

    3 de June de 202016 de June de 2020 by juliana

    Something that was unassailable and inviolable

    Dear Netty, The Seventh Cross (tr. Margo Bettauer Dembo, 2018. Original: Das siebte Kreuz, 1942) starts and ends at the same point – but, in the span…… Read more “Something that was unassailable and inviolable”

    3 de June de 2020 by juliana

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