literature

Today, I finished Ray Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man . Some of the stories in it are now all-time favorites: Kaleido...

El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) My favorite quotes from Adelaida García Morales's El Sur (translated by Thomas G. Deveny): You emptied me of eve...

Italo Calvino: The Writer in the Trees (Duccio Chiarini, 2023)

Edvard Munch - "The Sun" (1911) Annie Ernaux on writing (via The Yale Review ): Without realizing it, I am widening the gap between my paren...

Ingeborg Bachmann: Rebel Poet (Barbara Frank, 2026)

I had to have this beautiful hardcover edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince . This book makes me weep every time I read i...

I finished Tove Jansson's The Summer Book on this summer solstice. It's about a grandmother and her granddaughter spending the summer togeth...

Tonight, I finished Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince ! I'd never read it before. It touched my heart so much. I think it was the...

"We Will Not Be Lovers" by The Waterboys Unrequited love is about hunger. It's about what we want and can't have, what seduces and tantalize...