I'm currently reading a selection of the letters of John Le Carré, edited by his son, Tim Cornwell, who according to the various dedications by his siblings died as well shortly after completing said edition. Unsurprisngly, Le Carré was good with letter writing, though better so the older he got, or perhaps it's that the targets of his praise and ( Read more... )

The Unsent Letters Exchange is online! I participated for the first time this year, and received a lovely story in one of my older fandoms, The Borgias: Amor Vincit Omnia, which consists of a series of letters written by Giulia Farnese to Lucrezia near the end of season 1. The Giulia & Lucrezia relationship was one of my favourite elements of the ( Read more... )

These last ten days or so, I've kept reading all I could get my hands on by and about Fanny Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy, Hensel). I had been vaguely aware of her in the past as sister of (Felix), and granddaughter of (Moses), and I knew she'd composed, but then I listened to a wonderful audio portrait of her available on Audible ("Nach Süden. A ( Read more... )

This is the art installation by Christian Kuhn (with the help of a local school) honoring the hundredth anniversary of the armistice, at the Königsplatz in Munich:


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As promised here in my report of the Frankfurt Book Fair, I've now collected the passages of Letters of Ted Hughes which for one reason or another struck me most.

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I finally got the right idea about how to fulfill my Multiverse assignment, which together with the second essay I'm writing for idol_reflection leads me to rewatch lots of Star Trek. And oh, my. Is that little Kirsten Dunst in TNG's Dark Page? (Though you'll have to be familiar with theatrical_muse business to understand why this painted a smile on my face ( Read more... )