Discover Creativity, reading best American novels of all time An American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, EDITH WHARTON, is known for her ironic and polished prose about the aristocratic New York society. Her protagonists are most often tragic heroes, portrayed as emotional people. Wharton’s protagonists challenge social taboos, but are unable to overcome the barriers of social convention. From the …
Read More »AFTERNOON RAIN IN STATE STREET – Poem by Amy Lowell
Exploring the Imagist style, mixing formal verse and free forms Her poem “Fixed Idea” was published in 1910, after which she published individual poems in various journals. In October of 1912, Houghton Mifflin published her first collection. She was encouraged to write from an early age, and at seventeen she secluded herself in the 7,000-book library, to study literature. She …
Read More »FROM THE PALM OF MY HAND – Víctor Terán / When Love flowers unceasingly, like a sickness
When love is bigger than a cloud A typical Mexican city? With a lively market, Juchitán de Zaragoza it’s a special town for the traveler, simply because few other gringos do. There are many festivals and celebrations in this town that has a Muxe community with cisgender men who dress in traditionally female. Around the main plaza, are stands offering …
Read More »CARAMELO – Novel by Sandra Cisneros
A novels that across the border between literary and popular fiction Guanajuato is located between the arid north of the country and the lusher south. The oldest group to inhabit this area, were the people now known as the Chupícuarios. In its Mummies Museum you can observe a number of naturally mummified bodies (interred during a cholera outbreak), in 1833. …
Read More »MANHATTAN BEACH – Novel by Jennifer Egan
A crime story on the waterfront Of her inspiration and approach to the work, listening music she have not experience time as linear, but experience it in layers. JENNIFER EGAN, an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Clinton Hill, (Brooklyn), in 1962 was born in Chicago but grew up in San Francisco. She has published one short …
Read More »THE BLUE BOOBY LIVES – James Tate and the distirbing poems
Nothing better than to move the reader deeplye Along every avenue and around every corner of the city there is something to do. The Nelson-Atkins Museum is an art gallery in Kansas City (Missouri), well known for its neoclassical architecture and its Asian art collection. Among the masterpieces of his collection of European painting, you can admire works by Caravaggio, …
Read More »THE DOUBLE HOOK – A novel written by Sheila Watson
A seminal work in the development of contemporary Canadian literature Before the settlers arrived, the area was inhabited by Qayqayt First Nation. It is located in the Burrard Peninsula, on the north bank of the Fraser River, 19 km southeast of Vancouver. New Westminster is a town of historical importance, in British Columbia (Canada). The main feature of the New …
Read More »NEBULA – Desi di Nardo / When a poem doesn’t fly, simply leave it alone.
Exploring inner and outer landscapes Toronto https://www.visitacity.com/en/toronto is a tidy city, its checkerboard jersey makes it a city easy to get around, in which orientation is not complicated. Toronto is a city full of things to see. Maple syrup, zoo and aquarium, Yorkville and Queen Street, the CN Tower and the banks of Ontario. Not only. The St. Lawrence Market …
Read More »JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT – Romance by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Because everyone has on his way something that pains him A pleasant culinary experience in Courbevoie, which opens a small window in a world of different tastes? Le Timgad, at 37 rue de l’Alma, http://www.letimgad.com/fr is a restaurant that welcomes you with its white windows carved with arabesques, tastes that mix sweet and savory and meats enriched with artichokes and …
Read More »THE ROSES OF SAADI – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, a tormented life at the service of spontaneity
A delicate creativity that seduces, even with the musicality of her verses Douai https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/douai-21922/tourist-office-douai-6002.htm has preserved its aristocratic atmosphere. Its church of Notre-Dame was badly damaged in 1944, but its 13th century nave was restored. Do not forget that the Carthusian monastery museum “La Chartreuse” has a fine collection of 16th century paintings. Visiting this French city, you will find …
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