December 23, 2024 8:55 am

PROLOGUE – Poetry, by Yun Dong-ju

PROLOGUE Can look up at the sky until the day I die, without even a shred of shame. Even the wind passing through the leaves, I suffered. With the soul singing stars, I have to love all the things that go towards death. And then, the way that I was given, I will have to go. Also tonight, the stars …

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FOR COMICI EMILIO – Poetry, by Antonia Pozzi

PER EMILIO COMICI > Si spalancano laghi di stupore, a sera nei tuoi occhi, fra lumi e suoni. Si aprono lenti fiori di follia, sull’acqua dell’anima, a specchio della grande cima coronata di nuvole. Il tuo sangue che sogna le pietre, è nella stanza, un favoloso silenzio. FOR COMICI EMILIO > Open wide with wonder lakes in the evening in …

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REVIVAL – Romance, by Stephen King

REVIVAL This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along …

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LIGHT OF HEART – Poetry, by Nichita Stănescu

LIGHT OF HEART > Fluctuate hours next to your shoulder, blue spheres, and between them there is Saturn. And while they spend, they decrease more evening and night. I do not mind, I’m not sorry for them. How are straight, their passing, almost childlike and gentle, shining in your eyes still. And I forget about them, forget it, too, and …

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STATION ELEVEN – Romance, by Emily St. John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, one snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named watches in horror as Jeevan performs, pumping Arthur’s chest …

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DOWNTOWN CORAL GABLES & MIRACLE MILE – The Little Paris in Miami

Welcome to Downtown Coral Gables and Miracle Mile. Designer shops, art galleries, live theatre, great restaurants, bridal bliss, and houseware heaven. It’s all here. Relax, shop and dine with style, only at Miracle Mile. It is the main east-west road through the city’s downtown central business district, consisting of many shops, financial institutions, restaurants and arts institution. Downtown Coral Gables …

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THE HUSBAND’S SECRET – Romance, by Liane Moriarty

THE HUSBAND’S SECRET Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses, and, ultimately, ourselves. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the …

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HERBERT MARSHALL – Poetry, by Edgar Lee Masters

HERBERT MARSHALL > All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me, sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness of spirit and contempt of your soul’s rights, which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you. You really grew to hate me for love of me, because I was your soul’s happiness, formed and tempered, to solve your life for …

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THE COMPLEX MAZE – Denis Nunez Rodriguez: painting the nature of human beings

DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ 1/4 – Cuban painter, he was born in Mantanzas. He studied drawing and painting in Cuba`s National Art School and graduated in 1986 as a painter and professor of painting and drawing. Subtle elements in his works reinforce the image of the psychological island in the artist’s concept, a stone pedestal where the figures or true martyrdom …

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BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS OF SIERRA ROSARIO – Cuba: 800 orchids and a castle in the clouds to the west of Havana

I was leaving early that morning from Havana, headed west in search of Soroa, who was waiting for me, in the mountains of the Sierra del Rosario. http://www.cubaculturaltrips.com/las-terrazas-sierra-del-rosario-biosphere-reserve/ The desire to see the wonderful park of orchids – full of life, 700 meters above sea level – had turned into reality. Observing nearly 800 orchids, I think the countries of …

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FEELING SOMETHING SPECIAL – Cuba and Tanga music

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside as well as the Vitruvian Man reminds us. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting …

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WHENEVER YOU WANT – Novel, by Armando Prieto Perez

WHENEVER YOU WANT Cuban blood and an almost carnal love for art. Luis, the protagonist of the story is the classic seducer, lover of women, tireless predator and believe that sex is the most important reason of life. He is an instinctive seducer, of those without inhibitions or rules: that’s why nobody knows resist. The case, however, to fall for …

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