Fondling Your Muse

Fondling Your Muse

John Warner

http://www.writersdigest.com/muse/

Comments: Funny, funny, funny. John Warner has to make a TV show on his writing tips. Or maybe just a podcast. The struggling-to-write audience needs to have a good laugh before they sit in front of the blank screen. Thus, we will finally witness an improved literary contemporary scene. If nothing else at least we will share some good laughs.

Кой?

Кой?

Елена Алексиева

Колибри 2006

Коментар: Доста се мъчих да открия защо точно Елена Алексиева и защо точно този сборник събра очите на българското жури. Ще ми трябва още време, през което може да ми се наложи да преговоря сюжети от Библията.

Thank You for Not Reading

Thank You for Not Reading

Essays on Literary Trivia

Dubravka Ugresic

Translated by Celia Hawkesworth

Dalkey Archive Press, 2003

Comments: Wonderful, as usually Dobravka Ugresic's prose is. The theme definitely unites the essays but towards the end the idea seems to be a bit too repetitive. The deaf, the blind, and even those who did not read but only heard of her book already know that it is about the vile, unintellectual, money-oriented publishing market of the Western world. Let's not even start spinning the statue of the Eastern European intellectual, let alone the feminine author, because we know that she is going to chew up the Ivana Trumps of the writing world and embrace Nadezhda Mandelstams.