Tag: literature
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Vivian Gornick
What a long road this novel and I have traveled together – and with so many stops along the way. I had never heard of Vivian Gornick until I picked up one of her books at my bookshop Passa Porta. The title “Unfinished Business. Notes of a Chronic Re-reader” appealed to me. Curious enough to…
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coming of age & AIDS
Identities become not so much categories to be occupied, owned, protected, or rejected, but spaces to be navigated, revisited, revised and elided on a moment-to-moment basis. – Noreen Giffney Over the Ortmann’s New Year’s family lunch on February 1st – yes, we tend to postpone celebrations – my niece Bettina, who is a librarian in…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 