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‘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. ...

Pop en literatuur (66): David Bowie en Anthony Burgess

9 July, 2019 - /blog/2718/pop-en-literatuur-66-david-bowie-en-anthony-burgess.html

Eerder in deze reeks kwam Bowie al eens voorbij , toen met zijn ode aan Nineteen Eighty-Four van George Orwell. Dat is maar een van de vele auteurs aan wie Bowie schatplichtig genoemd mag worden. In deel 40 van deze reeks besprak ik terloops de knipoog van Bowie naar John Osbourne en Oscar Wilde. De cut-uptechniek van William S. Burroughs werd door Bowie ook toegepast, zoals ik al eens aanstipte . Diezelfde Burroughs, of eigenlijk zijn roman The Wild Boys, was in de zeventi...

Let Her Be Free (ICY & SOT)

20 March, 2016 - /blog/443/let-her-be-free-icy-sot.html

Where once may have been her hijab now lingers a hundred birds about to take flight from a web of branches. When one bird soars the others will follow, signaling a great migration toward freedom. Let Her Be Free is a foray into this woman’s story as she frees herself from restrictions in her country. It is also the lens through which we may view the remarkable journey of ICY (b.1985) and SOT (b.1991), two Iranian activist-artist brothers who fled the persecution and censorship they exper...

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