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You (Haiku)
Read more: You (Haiku)it is a painful birth, voiding my soul of you; a stern confinement.
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.” – Emil Cioran
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Wild geese (haiku)
Read more: Wild geese (haiku)the sky stitched up by southward wings, its low-hanging belly exhaling.
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Presence (another haiku)
Read more: Presence (another haiku)two people can be quiet together only in person. presence is required for that exchange of silences called friendship, called love.
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Quotes of the day
Read more: Quotes of the day“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks. “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. If we turn our mind toward the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole…
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Haiku
Read more: Haikumade entirely of earth and glitter, I am shattered by the smile around your sadness – leaves and roots and branches with the strangest songbirds rustle and coo in the deadest of nights, each dawn a gaping longing.
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Timișoara scrie #7
Read more: Timișoara scrie #7Așa a arătat seara de 24.10.24 cu Diana Radovan, Cristi Vicol, Cosmin Leucuța și minunata echipă a Cărturești Timișoara! Am râs, am lăcrimat, am dezbătut lucruri mai mult sau mai puțin comode, am citit din recentul meu roman Icoană-n urmărire generală, am dat autografe și, în general, ne-am simțit bine. Distracția s-a continuat apoi în…
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My debut novel in Romanian is out!
Read more: My debut novel in Romanian is out!Dragii mei, eu am ajuns la Timișoara, iar romanul meu pleacă astăzi în lume!!! Ce veți găsi între paginile lui: un furt misterios, iubiri nevindecate și traumele emigrării, suspans și multe emoții. Sunt sigură că o să vă placă!Îl puteți comanda de la https://www.edituradatagroup.ro/produs/icoana-n-urmarire-generala/ sau de la Librăriile Cărturești!Mii de mulțumiri lui Andru-David Simionoiu și…
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Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book Reading
Read more: Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book ReadingDear friends, On 24.10.24, I’m invited to speak about books, literature, and writing at “Timișoara scrie”, an event hosted by Cărturești in my hometown. I’ll be reading from my latest novel, Icoană-n urmărire generală (mystery/romance), due to be released shortly by Datagroup Publishing. Alongside me, my neighbor and friend Diana Radovan, author of a poignant…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.” Emil Cioran – All Gall is Divided (1952)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…