Heute habe ich die Ausstellung „WEIMAR WEIBLICH - Frauen und Geschlechtervielfalt im Kino der Moderne (1918 – 1933)“ in Frankfurt besucht und ich fand sie so, so gut! Liebes Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, wirklich schön kuratiert und ich habe so viel mitgenommen. 🤩

“- Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you? - It saves me from conversation.” Faber Finds Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sr. Zim @Takakura_Pratt Atorrante Gracias. Muy interesante. No conocía la novela de Carolina Nabuco. En este artículo (excelente y muy bien documentado) se analiza a fondo el posible plagio. ¿Y si las dos autoras se inspiraron en Jane Eyre? x.com/ablankgarden/s…

New post from Juliana 🌿 about Brazilian author Júlia Lopes de Almeida & her novel A FALÊNCIA. It appears UCL Press is publishing her novel THE BANKRUPTCY in July, translated by Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani & Jason Rhys Parry. theblankgarden.com/2023/06/03/rev…

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Registration is now open for our conference 'Simone Weil for our Times' Registration is free, and the full programme of talks will follow soon - we even have a book launch! Please share far and wide... eventbrite.co.uk/e/simone-weil-…

SIMONE WEIL: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

This is the light of autumn; it has turned on us. Surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something. Louise Glück, October #RIP

most spirits seem to me like crustaceans, with the bone outside and the flesh inside (...) this is what actually happens; we are all unfortunate crabs, shut up in hard shells. and the poet is he whose flesh emerges from the shell, whose soul oozes forth. miguel de unamuno

For the entirety of Frankfurt FrankfurterBuchmesse, we've made the eBook of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, tr. Elisabeth Jaquette, free to download: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/minor-de… Amazon: amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B088ZR… Apple: books.apple.com/gb/book/minor-… Kobo: kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/mi…

Pentti Saarikoski, tr. Anselm Hollo