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| Whispered into the Wind |
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson * 31 December 1957
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Beers & Books CCXCVII – Lucia Berlin: Selected Stories
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| What will you do when you leave? * A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories. |
Lucia Berlin (12 November 1936 – 12 November 2004)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
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Unforgettable Carlos Saura
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| ¡Esa Luz! / This Light! |
In one of his late interviews, Carlos Saura asked that when he died, no one should remember him. It was only important for him to be remembered as long as he lived.
Ah, Señor Saura, this wish will remain unfulfilled.
Thanks a lot. Rest in peace.
Carlos Saura (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023)
Friday, February 10, 2023
Thursday, February 09, 2023
Beers & Books CCXCI – Brendan Behan 100
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| Borstal Boy, The Hostage and other plays, Confessions of an Irish Rebel |
Brendan Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)
The Quare Fellow
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Beers & Books CCXC – Frans Eemil Sillanpää
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| Hurskas kurjuus (1919) Should be translated a Pious Misery |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964)
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Beers & Books CCLXXXIX – The Road to Brightcity
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| Nine stories, translated by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, in 1981 made accessible for the first time to an English speaking readership exquisite masterpieces of Ó Cadhain's writings. |
Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
Monday, February 06, 2023
Mo(o)nday Poetry
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| Colmena iVivimos en celdas de cristal, en colmena de aire! Nos besamos a través de cristal. iMaravillosa cárcel, cuya puerta es la luna! - - - Beehive We live in cells of crystal in a beehive of air! We are kissing each other through crystal.* Wonderful prison, the door of which is the moon! |
Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Beers & Books CCLXXXVIII – An Eochair / The Key
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| A mixture of kafka-esque satire, farce, black comedy and tragedy. |
Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
Saturday, February 04, 2023
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Thursday, February 02, 2023
Our Civilisation
"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Beers & Books CCLXXXVI – Diary of a Bookseller
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| Thursday, 24 April An elderly customer told me that her book club's next book was Dracula, but she could not remember what he'd written. |
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