Djaïli Amadou Amal, The Impatient
A conversation with Djaïli Amadou Amal
Wow. I think we can all agree that My Brilliant Friend had quite the brilliant end. If someone wrote a 100-hundred-page thesis on the significance of Marcello wearing the shoes laboured over by Lila that Stefano bought, I would read it front to back. In a way, I feel like I already did by reading […]
A conversation with Ann Goldstein
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
*post contains F and T-slurs I enjoyed this book a lot, it was a thrilling read from start to finish and I was always interested in what would happen next in the robbery and pursuit. I also enjoyed it as it being explicitly queer with the Kid and Dorda annd those elements caught my eye; […]
I just finished reading ‘The Lover’ and I think I’m realizing that I don’t like French books. They are all so wishy washy and dreamy and so hard to follow. I was so confused the whole time reading this book. It felt like the narrator’s stream of consciousness but everything was fragmented and we would go from talking about her…
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
A conversation with Fernanda Negrete
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
