Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
— Victor Hugo, born in 1892
Black weddings, vampire plagues, a blood tax — in Eastern Europe, storytelling and ritual were key to regional identity... more »
DON’T TRUST INFO FROM GOOGLE: Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route: The two men reportedly hiked for days past crocodiles, snakes, and deadly spiders after their car got stuck on a muddy road.
In The Observer Anthony Cummins has a Q & A with Georgi Gospodinov: ‘There was a culture of silence – it was safer not to say what you think’.
A UK edition of Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow is now out, and a new US edition is coming out -- though not from Open Letter, who originally published it.
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What if writing history were less about archives and ideas and more about forensics and genomes?... more »