Writing
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
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My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.
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The great schizophrenia
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Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
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One last round | Son bir şans
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English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico
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« Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »
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Needle & pen
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Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
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The coldest, cleanest water in Europe
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Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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Streuselkuchen
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A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch.
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Kill your darlings
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.
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How Americans edit sex out of my writing
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What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.