In this month's AUFLAUF:
- The most depressing street in all Berlin
- Rock, funk, and Yes
- Northanger Abbey references
- Good poetry
- Long-awaited John Owen debut
- What are history books for?
- Gossip columnist seeks hotspot
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8:30 on Saturday at Lettrétrage (Veteranenstrasse 21): we‘re chatting about the very alive literary legacy of Sebald. There’ll be some convo, some readings, some CRISIS perhaps—but all in all it should be a GOOD TIME!
Tomorrow!
I had the absolute pleasure to speak with Maggie O'Farrell about her excellent new novel, LAND, and how it inadvertently addresses "one of today's most potent political stances: Where do you stand on people arriving in your country or people leaving your country?"
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In the AUFLAUF review mail this month:
- Karaoke
- Fascist afterlives
- Very good literature
- Pick-me-girls
- Books cost 20c a page now???
- Finally the truth about the Limerick Writers Center
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The Hamnet author on how cartography, travel, and place inform her latest work.
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The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar
Wrote about a Dutch East India Company physician's attempt to figure out how acupuncture works – while essentially living on a prison off Nagasaki:
Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Nora Biette-Timmons
Fascinating interview by @return2sanders.bsky.social on Herta Müller's poetics, AI, the memory of Communism, and the sticky discomfort of Müller's bad politics:
Alexander Wells
Alexander Wells
Some great reviews this month: @brynstole.bsky.social on Wolfgang Koeppen's post-war trilogy, @return2sanders.bsky.social on Paul Celan's still-mesmerising ephemera, and myself on Polly Barton's novel of expat life and karaoke and translation:
