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Two Stories by Clarice Lispector Translated by Elizabeth Bishop
In my pantheon of favorite writers, Clarice Lispector is right there at the top. She's a writer, like Muriel Spark or Thomas Bernhard, who always make me ask when reading their work: Is this allowed? Sometimes her prose has such power I am made to wonder if I have the strength and stability to keep reading. Championed by Elizabeth Bishop …
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Dino De Laurentiis, Silvana Mangano, Lalli Kamenetsky, and My Novel
When film blogger extraodinaire Self-Styled Siren heard that Dino De Laurentiis had died on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 she immediately thought of the above clip from Bitter Rice--one of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema. De Laurentiis produced this film starring his bride-to-be Silvana Mangano. It was while viewing Bitter Rice for the first time that a tiny seed of inspiration was …
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Muriel Spark “I Accept Everything About Myself.”
Click here to play I came across this BBC interview with Muriel Spark on the magnificent Maud Newton's website. By way of self-justification for the theft, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, "Mediocre bloggers borrow, great bloggers steal." Dame Muriel is at her wry, witty, and subversive best here as it is obviously the only way to respond to her priggish …
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The Inimitable Sylvia Beach in Paris
Stefania Benvenuti, Artista
I have four extraordinary sisters, and four more extraordinary stepsisters, but I also happen to have extraordinary sisters-in-law, one of whom is Stefania. She is an architect who lives in Florence but has recently begun to develop a body of work as a painter. She has always been, during the twenty odd years …
Lisbeth Salander, The Millenium Trilogy, and My Mother at Bookslut
I have a new Bombshell post at Bookslut, which celebrates it's 100th issue. I have followed this odd, intelligent, and, above all, always surprising, on-line book review ever since my second novel No Ordinary Matter Click here to read the Bookslut Review of No Ordinary Matter was given in its webpages a review that was …
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Dedication
Welcome to my world. Or at least a few of them. Not long ago, I went to a yoga class for the first time. After a few oms, the teacher asked us to take a moment and dedicate that day’s practice to someone. I loved the idea so much I thought …
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