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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“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 –…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“If, whilst I am, I am as I should be, what do I care more? And thus let me lose self every hour, and be twenty successive selfs, or new selfs, ‘tis all one to me: so [long as] I lose not my opinion [i.e. my overall outlook, my character, my moral identity]. If I…
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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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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Waitzkin characterizes medicine as an ideological system that “calls” the patient to be an identity that medicine maintains for him; the diagnosis is the most prevalent form of this identity. The ideological work of medicine is to get the patient to accept this diagnostic identity as appropriate and moral. When the patient accepts this identity,…
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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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Oamenii
Read more: Oamenii(a poem in Romanian) Oamenii se taie cu aplomb unii pe alții Oamenii scot cuțitele și le înfig unii în alții se spintecă sfârtecă eviscerează își produc cicatrici lungi răni adânci găuri prin care poți vedea în zare o bucățică mică mică de albastru Oamenii își cară pumni se învinețesc își rup unii altora nasul…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not be too complex a thing to be kept within the bounds of a single formulated purpose, whether it would not burst its way out, or if the purpose were too strong, perhaps grow…
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