Posts Tagged: reading

I love you already, Jonathan

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One of my favorite novelists, Jonathan Lethem, has made several song lyrics available for adaptation by musicians – free of charge. He’s also offering stories for film or stage adaptation for the price of one dollar. As he explains on his Web site: I like art that comes from other art, and I like seeing… Read more »

Gabriela Mistral

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Having just mentioned her, I thought she deserved her own post. If you don’t know already, Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean schoolteacher and poet. Everyone knows about Pablo Neruda, but not many people—outside Chile, at least—know about Gabriela and her poems. People should. Her voice is tender, sensuous, anguished, wise, and playful by turns. My… Read more »

My first interesting online acquaintance

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I just met someone through last.fm. I liked her crazy wild gypsy music and I sent her a message about it. Now we’ve been getting acquainted. Her parents had to leave Chile during the dictatorship. She’s a big traveler, a musician, and helps her aunt teach school in Chile sometimes though she lives stateside otherwise…. Read more »