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+ Ágota Kristóf, france, hungary, immigration, Literature, reading, refugee

Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

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A few days ago, as I am wont to do on occasion, I walked through the stacks at my local library, immediately making a line towards the French literature section. I did this, partly, because I had just read Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and wanted to see if I could find some of the works by Didier Daeninckx, André Schwarz-Bart, and … Read More Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

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+ creative writing, short story, south, southern, southern gothic, southern literature, writing, zombies

“I’ve always done what is right”

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If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that while I typically write essays, I occasionally write short stories. I’ve published “Paper,” “Adieu,” and “This Story is Continuing to Develop” here over the past few years. Today, I want to share another story that I wrote back in 2020. I’m not, really, a huge horror fan, but someone asked me to write … Read More “I’ve always done what is right”

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+ annie ernaux, Anton Chekov, José Ortega y Gasset, nobel prize in literature, the years

“All the images will disappear”: Memory and Existence in Annie Ernaux’s “The Years”

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve started to read more works by French writers, including Leïla Slimani’s Adèle and Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho. To expand my reading, I asked individuals for other recommendations of female French writers, and one person suggested that I read Annie Ernaux. At the person’s suggestion, I went to the stacks in my library and pulled down a … Read More “All the images will disappear”: Memory and Existence in Annie Ernaux’s “The Years”

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+ crystal wilkinson, praisesong for the kitchen ghosts, stories, wilma dykeman

What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

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Our lives consist of stories, both stories about things we experience and things that we construct from the myriad of threads that enter into the very fiber of our being. Growing up, Wilma Dykeman saw “an old bent man” walking by her house most days. She looked at him “with hungry curiosity” and thought of him as “someone from a story-book, someone unreal and … Read More What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

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+ ernest j gaines, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, guy delisle, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Palestine

Who’d Want to Read It?

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Guy Delisle spent a year living in Jerusalem as his partner worked for an NGO in the West Bank and Gaza. He detailed his experience in Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. During that year, Delisle led comics’ workshops in various cities in the West Bank including Nablus and Ramallah. At an event in Nablus he notes that the level of the artists “is not … Read More Who’d Want to Read It?

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