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2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It is also the 452nd anniversary of his birthday, as Shakespeare is believed to have ...

“You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.”  I have been in (an artistic) love with Ethan ...

The 41 year old Romanian writer Lucian Dan Teodorovici is the one whose book "The Other Love Stories" (2009) I managed to rea...

It seems I have waited the perfect amount of time to write about the wonderful concert I attended at the beginning of March because Eduar...

I am proudly announcing the start of the first (ever) Romanian Writers Challenge! As I stated at the beginning of January, I am planning o...

« Sur ce sentiment inconnu, dont l'ennui, la douceur m'obsèdent, j'hésite à apposer le nom, le beau nom grave de tristesse » ...

I first discovered Mircea Cartarescu back in 2001 when my college roommate introduced me to his poems, which I later decided to translate...

"Venice is a complicated place, physically and spiritually, and it is extraordinarily difficult to establish Venetian facts. Nothing ...

I have no intention of giving up on my other challenge, which turns 4 today, mainly because Venice is still my favorite city in the world...

“I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a r...

Art can be serious but you can still enjoy it while having a laugh. I have been familiar with Van Gogh 's work for decades, and I am ...

“A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.”  Even if Tony has given up on his challenge, January in...

I have read on a lot of people's blogs that they wish to drop challenges in 2016 and rely more on quality rather than quantity when it ...

I have been planning to write about Cristina Nemerovschi since I first read her book, "nymphette_dark99" a few months ago, bu...

No, this blog is not dead, it just took a break away from the maddening crowd until next year, which is just a few days away :) Have Yo...

I was expecting Natsuo Kirino's novel to be a shocker, mainly because "Out" was one and this book too was announced as a th...

A few months ago people around the internet started playing this literary tag, mainly they named their 10 most influential books. I remember...

August has been quite a lazy month for me, taking time to visit places and enjoy the company of the special people around me. However, I ...