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Parę dni w Warszawie

Pojechaliśmy na trzy dni do stolicy. Mieszkałem tam parę ładnych lat i zdarza mi się tęsknić za tym miastem. Nie jest to jakaś szczególnie paląca tęsknota. Wylądowałem w Krakowie, parę latek przyjdzie mi tutaj przesiedzieć i nie ma z czego robić żadnej historii. Ale gdy m...

You have heard it said, “It’s lonely at the top.” It means that CEOs, and senior pastors, and leaders of non-profit organizations, and politicians in positions of great authority, and scholars at the top of their field, and athletes and actors and musicians who are known by millions — all these l...

Recently on Good Reads (GR) I was asked a question about worldbuilding. I’m not terribly active on GR because there’s only so much social media a gal can do in a meaningful way and still write books and deal with realtime life, so questions are a relatively rare event.

Donald Trump, like much of the American public, is entranced by electronic images. He interprets reality through the distortions of digital media. His decisions, opinions, political positions, prejudices and sense of self are reflected back to him on screens. He views himself and the world around...

In last week’s readers’ mailbag I started to answer a question that I never finished – in fact, I never got around to the question!  Here it is again.

QUESTION :

Is there a story (post) about your move from textual criticism to other things?

RESPONSE:

In my two-part (non-)response to th...

новость недели у нас, конечно, такая:

Thomas Pynchon: At du er paranoid, behøver ikke betyde, at der ikke er nogen efter dig

да, это много лет спустя вышел датский перевод “Радуги тяготения”. это коллега Клаус Бех

а это на полку упоротого упертого пинчономана

ну и учебник заодно

развлечение дня: най...

Right now, my living room and dining room are overflowing with my frantic last-minute (for me) packing and checking (and frantically quadruple-checking) everything I’m taking for Wild Wicked Weekend next weekend in San Antonio, Texas. I can’...

A driver was stopped by police and ticketed Thursday after police say she attempted to pass off a pack of Camel 99 cigarettes as an official New Hampshire inspection sticker.

(Thanks to Ralph)

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For all those asking: no, I did not design/ do the art for the original Call Down the Hawk cover.

 Chapter Three

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Luna aceasta am citit:

Tratat despre toleranță, Voltaire, Editura Herald.

Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, Oxford Univeristy Press.

Citesc:

Pulbere de stele, Neil Gaiman, Tritonic.

Voi citi:

16 prozatori de azi, coordonator Andreea Răsuceanu, Humanitas.

Sexualitate și societate. Istorie, religie, literatură, A...