Perhaps the sweltering warmth is accountable. Perhaps Eduard Klajner ought to have taken the capsule. A lonely man in his fifties, newly unemployed, along with his mom in a retirement residence, discovers a woman tied to a tree within the backyard of his home one July night time. Eduard doesn’t know the place she bought … Read more
I asked the director of APRIL, Álex Sàlmon, to give me the proper names of the authors that I have interviewed recently in the youngest of the Spanish literary supplements. He gave me the list, and finally added, generously and between interjections: “Good list!!!”. I felt, therefore, inclined to recover names, titles, references of each … Read more
American plan de Seth Greenland Translated from English (United States) by Adélaïde Pralon Editions Liana Levi, 320 p., €22 New York, late 1970s. The city is in turmoil and in disrepair. Municipal finances are on the verge of bankruptcy. Entire neighborhoods are falling into ruin, blighted by drugs and prostitution. Real estate prices are plummeting. … Read more
🕮This is the script of the second part of the Podcast Storytelling Channel[TOGETHER Read Together]EP81 “Underlying Logic”. It is recommended to use it with audio files for better effect: 👉ApplePodcast：TOGETHER Read together: EP81. Why haven’t we received a karma yet? Underlying Logic Part 2 – Lewis on Apple Podcasts 👉Spotify：EP81. Why haven’t we received a … Read more
Forty-six-year-old writer Mieko Kawakami became famous for her novel Breasts and Eggs. Even Haruki Murakami, the living legend of Japanese literature, praised her for him. “I will never forget the feeling of utter amazement when I first read the novel,” he noted at the time. In her homeland, Kawakami won the most important literary awards, … Read more
Title: “Sweet Chaos: Meryem Alaoui’s Novel Explores the Vibrant Lives of New York’s Diverse Residents” In her latest novel, “Sweet Chaos,” Meryem Alaoui takes readers on a captivating journey through the lives of the residents of a typical New York building in the heart of Brooklyn. Formerly a poor neighborhood, the area has now become … Read more
The Phantom Year by Didier Tronchet Dupuis, coll. “Free area”, 192 p., €27 We had left him on a lost island, now we find him at the top of Paris. Neither quite the same, nor quite another. The creator of Jean-Claude Tergal, an award-winning funny series about his alter ego, a sentimental loser in a … Read more
Assemblage de Natasha Brown Translated from English by Jakuta Alikavazovic Grasset, 160 p., 17 € For an average Briton, in other words a white man, her identity seems simple to describe: she is a black woman, attractive, from the training of excellence of “Oxbridge”, salaried employee with brilliant success; the portrait is completed by a … Read more