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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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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“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)
Read more: 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
Read more: TIMISOARA23 Travel Guide Wins Silver Medal in 2024 FAPA Book AwardsDear 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
Read more: 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
Read more: Carpathian cow-keeperCome, 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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TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets – a FAPA Book Award Medalist!
Read more: TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets – a FAPA Book Award Medalist!Dear friends, I have just received word that our storytelling travel guide TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets, which I co-authored with my wonderful photographer friend Claudia Tanasescu, is a medalist in the 2024 FAPA President’s Book Awards! The award “recognizes book publishing excellence and creativity in design, content, and production for authors and publishers.” There’s still time…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“It may be that in cultures with much longer and varied literary histories than our own, cultures that revere writers and where intellectuals are not regarded as enemies of the people, in cultures where the neoliberal fantasy of isolated self-creation has less appeal, the vicissitudes of life and their representations in a novel are seen…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Our ideas – and hence the principles which are stitched together from them – are answers to questions, and hence they are only as good as the questions that have helped in their ‘excavation’ and formation. (…) Modern philosophy (…) has tended to make tyrants and false ‘gods’ of ideas. Idea-ism is the most common…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Modernity is a great contradiction, consisting on the one hand of the unprecedented technological and administrative harnessing of corporeal powers and on the other hand of a plethora of souls in disintegration, the weakened personalities of men and women who are ‘no longer (being) certain of the sources of integrity’.” W. Cristaudo – Religion, Redemption…
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