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Marina Warner’s Quarantine Diary
Sei Shonagon was a Japanese writer in the tenth to eleventh centuries who served in the entourage of the empress in Kyoto. Her Pillow Book is a diary, a…
Jul 7, 2020
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Diary: Luis J. Rodriguez, A Writer‘s Journey (Part Two)
Kids at the Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural Winterlandia festival in December. Photo by Giovanni Solia [Read Part I of this Diary here] In writing, as in…
Feb 16, 2020
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Forest Education (Part One)
Jacket illustration by Elisa Talentino for Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree On his first visit to such a large congregation of trees, my…
Sep 17, 2021
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Diary: Lucille Clifton Remembers
“Walking from New Orleans to Virginia,” Daddy would say, “you go through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. And that’s…
Oct 29, 2021
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Diary: Michael Robbins, On Rilke
I was reading a thriller by Lisa Unger the other night when I started thinking about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Unger’s protagonist falls for a guy on…
Jul 26, 2023
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Diary: (2) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights, 1934
Illustration from Arabian Nights, 1934. Still from Heat Lightning (1934) Read Part One of this post here The movie is beginning. I am elsewhere, I am…
Mar 16, 2023
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Diary: Sven Birkerts
The Flaneur Writers, at least most of the writers I know, have a great interest in the idea of the flaneur, the urban wanderer who follows an…
May 5, 2023
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Diary: Patricia Storace, A Christmas present
Here is a Christmas present for you to open: Lillian Smith’s Memory of a Large Christmas. It is a treasure that deserves to be as familiar and…
Dec 24, 2019
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: (1) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights of 1934
Illustration from Arabian Nights 1934. Strand Theater, Lansing, Michigan, 1941. Photographer unknown Home was to be escaped from. Some stepped into dark…
Mar 14, 2023
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Diary: On Adam Zagajewski
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Mar 22, 2021
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Diary: Luis J. Rodriguez, A Writer‘s Journey (Part One)
Tititl Ceremony, a dance tradition tracing back to ancient mesoamerica, hosted by Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and Kapulli Xochiyaoyotl at the Sun…
Feb 14, 2020
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Diary: Maria Stepanova on Nadezhda Mandelstam, Literature and Truth
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1925), Lydia Ginsburg (1940), Varlam Shalamov (1929) Poet Maria Stepanova writes of the Soviet-era memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam…
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