Writing
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On being plagiarized
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« To write a biography about a writer like Kiš is a violation of the poetics of the very author it claims to revere. »
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »
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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.
