“I do think that there's a part of me that was always going to write this book.”
New at PB: In conversation with @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, @aditaferrer.bsky.social discusses the inevitability of writing her latest book, “Keeper of My Kin” (Scribner).
“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.”
“Let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”
Let’s “go where our mothers couldn’t,” argues @ria4983.bsky.social, in an essay that contemplates Virginia Woolf, Chantal Akerman, and reading “beyond the limits of genre and authority.”
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In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
“I see our project, Beyond Ourselves, in this same vein: an active acknowledgment that plural authorship is not only a necessity but a stark truth.”
In their new anthology Beyond Ourselves, @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim urge resistance to individualism.
“Rash reading is floating with intent.”
New at PB: A call for reading well from @ria4983.bsky.social.
On the first day of the World Cup, Nicolás Campisi reviews two books on the history of football in Argentina “illuminate what is at stake in these disputes by revealing how deeply football and local political power remain intertwined.”
In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
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“Rash reading, slow watching: these contradict our culture’s worst too-online habits, such as ‘skim reading’ or ‘second screening.’”
“And one day I just got up and started writing. And it was really intense writing this book.”
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“Collaboration is the only way to address the mounting ecological, planetary, & humanitarian crises we are facing this century.”
@catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim discuss the intellectual exchange inspired by Muriel Rukeyser, necessary to our shared future.
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In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
In early 20th century Buenos Aires, football clubs emerged as institutions of sociability and mutual aid, but also of anarchist resistance, immigrant solidarity, and antifascist organizing.
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New at PB: In the penultimate episode of Season 4 of our podcast Writing Latinos, host @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks with author @aditaferrer.bsky.social about her new book, “Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter” (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).
In a new essay for Public Books, Ria Banerjee (@ria4983.bsky.social) encourages the rash reading of Virginia Woolf and the slow watching of Chantal Akerman.
“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.”
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.”
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In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
