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Full Disclosure (1): an essay and poem on writing and belonging by Kate Fry

19 September, 2018 - /blog/2255/full-disclosure-1-an-essay-and-poem-on-writing-and-belonging-by-kate-fry.html

*             This summer, my parents made the call to downsize into a townhouse in the west end of Vancouver. Thus I, dutiful daughter that I am, have been making trips back to Vancouver in order to perform the (not entirely altruistic) task of helping my mother purge her hefty collection of books. There are a lot. Once a photography student and now a retired media studies professor, my mom has a good eye for literature and an even be...

Dear Chris, (a love letter by Lieke Marsman)

26 May, 2016 - /blog/590/dear-chris-a-love-letter-by-lieke-marsman.html

I was reminded of the experience I had when I read I love Dick for the first time, how I felt liberated, both by the book’s form and its content. When I finally did fall asleep, I had a dream about you. Or, to be more precise, a dream about this gathering here tonight, in which you were a very clever 21-year-old blonde girl with ugly glasses. I myself was in the dream as well, trying to read a text from a paper of which the longer I looked at it, the more convinced I became that it w...

Bye Bye Facebook en SNEAK PEEK van Matt Haigs nieuwe boek

11 April, 2018 - /blog/2030/bye-bye-facebook-en-sneak-peek-van-matt-haigs-nieuwe-boek.html

I used to think social media was a force for good. Now the evidence says I was wrong Fragment uit een opiniestuk van Matt Haig in The Guardian . Lees het hele artikel hier .  I used to think social media was essentially a force for good, whether it was to initiate the Arab spring of 2011, or simply as a useful tool for bringing together like-minded people to share videos of ninja cats. Having spent a lot of time thinking about mental health, I even saw social media’s ...

Lebowski launches the second edition of 2.3.74, a literary magazine for Grounded SF from the Netherlands and Flanders

11 October, 2018 - /nieuws/2301/lebowski-launches-the-second-edition-of-2-3-74-a-literary-magazine-for-grounded-sf-from-the-netherlands-and-flanders.html

So why, actually, this magazine? Science fiction, or speculative fiction, or, as we prefer to call it, true fiction — or better yet, Grounded SF — never really got a foothold in the Low Countries. Are we too down-to-earth for space odysseys? Do our visions not cross borders? Do we prefer realism to transcendental ideas? We aren’t and we don’t. We discovered that some of the most talented Dutch and Flemish authors are deeply influenced by the so-called Grounded SF literature ...

Pop en literatuur (84): The Byrds en Prediker

21 January, 2020 - /blog/2910/pop-en-literatuur-84-the-byrds-en-prediker.html

  Toegegeven, dit nummer is eigenlijk geschreven door Pete Seeger , in 1959. Wereldwijde bekendheid verkreeg het echter door de versie van The Byrds uit 1965. Maar de tekst is eigenlijk noch van Seeger noch van The Byrds. De werkelijke schrijver is onbekend. Het gaat namelijk om een poëtische passage uit het bekende Bijbelboek Prediker . Wie de prediker is die in dit Bijbelboek aan het woord is en naar wie het ook is vernoemd, is nooit opgehelderd. De schrijver doet...

‘I want to get rid of that thriller writer label’ - interview with Saskia Noort

13 May, 2018 - /nieuws/2080/i-want-to-get-rid-of-that-thriller-writer-label-interview-with-saskia-noort.html

Saskia Noort (50)  just got back from the London Book Fair, the international network party for writers and TV-makers.  She looks elated: her American agent was more than enthusiastic about her new novel.   Not surprisingly, because divorce matters in the partly autobiographical Stromboli are recognizable, the book contains a fair deal of explicit sex and there is a lot of attention for #metoo, the urgent, topical theme that leads to many heated discussions worldwide. ...

New deal: German rights 'Hier is alles veilig' ('All is Safe Here') by Anneleen Van Offel sold to Oktaven Verlag

18 March, 2021 - /nieuws/3263/new-deal-german-rights-hier-is-alles-veilig-all-is-safe-here-by-anneleen-van-offel-sold-to-oktaven-verlag.html

About All is Safe Here Lydia, a Belgian doctor, hurries over to Israel after receiving an alarming email from her stepson Immanuel. Her ex-husband took him to the Promised Land ten years ago, in the hope of finding a home there. Since then, Lydia has neither seen nor spoken to the boy. When she arrives in Israel it’s too late: Immanuel has passed away. Confronted with the loss, Lydia tries to piece together the life of her stepson, now a grown man. Through conversations with his...

New deal: German rights 'Hier is alles veilig' ('All is Safe Here') by Anneleen Van Offel sold to Oktaven Verlag

14 June, 2021 - /nieuws/3311/new-deal-german-rights-hier-is-alles-veilig-all-is-safe-here-by-anneleen-van-offel-sold-to-oktaven-verlag.html

About  All is Safe Here Lydia, a Belgian doctor, hurries over to Israel after receiving an alarming email from her stepson Immanuel. Her ex-husband took him to the Promised Land ten years ago, in the hope of finding a home there. Since then, Lydia has neither seen nor spoken to the boy. When she arrives in Israel it’s too late: Immanuel has passed away. Confronted with the loss, Lydia tries to piece together the life of her stepson, now a grown man. Through conversations wit...

Afterword Golden Years

13 March, 2016 - /blog/435/afterword-golden-years.html

My wife Manuela and I hosted – with the help of some friends in New York – an exhibition (called Made in Iran) in downtown Manhattan with the Iranian brothers Icy & Sot, two street artists who had just made the transition from Tabriz, their hometown in Iran, to New York – the city they had been dreaming of, where they would meet their friends, musicians, artists and skaters who had already left their country behind them – realizing that the impossibility of returning to Iran would b...

Why I Kept Silent

24 October, 2017 - /nieuws/1663/why-i-kept-silent.html

Matthijs van Nieuwkerk (famous Dutch talk-show host) wondered, after the Harvey Weinstein segment, why all his victims took so long to come out. He called it ‘peculiar’. I think there’s nothing peculiar about it. Keeping silent about sexual violence and intimidation are ingrained in us. The same goes for shame and guilt. Talking about it often leads to misery, and I should know. I remained silent about my rape for 35 years. I was 14 and at a place where I shouldn’t be in a mini-ski...

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