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June 2021 | Reading & Writing
May 2021 Reading Recommendations April 2021 Reading Recommendations March 2021 Reading Recommendations WEEK 23 Exhibitions seen this week: the sweeping color landscapes by Hans Hartung at Galerie Perrotin and the sculptures by the French sculptor César, exhibited at César & César & César at Almine Rech. #book #literature | The Actual by Saul Bellow This […]
May 2021 Reading & Writing
April 2021 Reading Recommendations March 2021 Reading Recommendations WEEK 20 Reouverture week in Paris, finalement. Cafe terraces open for reading and museums open for contemplative walks, it takes a certain willpower to resist the constant temptation to leave home. After visits to a couple of art exhibitions, a film on Françoise Sagan + interviews with […]
April 2021 Reading & Writing
March 2021 Reading Recommendations February 2021 Reading Recommendations January 2021 Reading Recommendations 2020 Book & Reading Recommendations WEEK 17 The last weekend and the better half of this week were spent reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor. With its enviably good prose and thoroughly enjoyable trilingual dialogue, it left such a heavy mark that most […]
March 2021 Reading Recommendations
February 2021 Reading Recommendations January 2021 Reading Recommendations 2020 Book & Reading Recommendations WEEK 12 Choose a weekend, find a novel – it must be in a physical book form, read it in a single day. This is my currently most-beloved form of acclimatizing my brain to a different wavelength, alternating thoughts from the quotidian […]
February 2021 Reading & Writing
January 2021 Reading Recommendations 2020 Book & Reading Recommendations WEEK 8 For every fleeting momentum of reading recently-published literary works, I fall back into the rhythm of reading 20th-century authors. This week, it’s been Saul Bellow’s nonfiction writing and George Saunders’ thoughtful and amusing analysis of the Russian short story masters Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and […]
January 2021 Reading & Writing
Best of what I've been reading and seeing, January 2021 edition.