Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Kultur

  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

    seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.

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  • 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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  • Quote of the day

    “We call intuition the sympathy by which one transports oneself into the inside of an object in order to coincide with what is unique and consequently the inexplicable. (…) Metaphysics is thus the kind of science that pretends to surpass symbols.” Henri Bergson – An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903)

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  • Quotes of the day

    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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  • Timișoara scrie #7

    Timișoara scrie #7

    Așa 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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  • Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book Reading

    Dear 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

    “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

    “Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…

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  • The Impact of Fictional Truth: Embracing Escapism (reblogged)

    An article I loved about the virtues of escapist reading and writing. The redeeming connection between the so-called escapist genres (romance, mystery, sci-fi) and wellbeing is not yet very well documented, but it intrigues me. In a literary landscape that tends to dismiss them as frivolous and not “real” literature, this confession (which matches my…

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  • TIMISOARA23 Travel Guide Wins Silver Medal in 2024 FAPA Book Awards

    TIMISOARA23 Travel Guide Wins Silver Medal in 2024 FAPA Book Awards

    Dear friends, today I have received confirmation that our storytelling travel guide TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets You’ll Love About the City and the Romanian Banat has won a silver medal in the 2024 FAPA Book Awards! I’ll receive the actual medal in the mail in a couple of weeks and a digital certificate which I’ll share…

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  • Quote of the day

    “As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and rule our silences begin to lose their control over us.” – Audre Lourde, Poetry Is Not A Luxury “Behold…

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  • Carpathian cow-keeper

    Carpathian cow-keeper

    Come, come look at the cows, he says, just cross this little brook, don’t worry it is not too cold, and never mind this blue rope here, I will untie it in no time. I wrap it ‘round the bushes so the cows think it’s electric and don’t get away I tend to about 20…

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