Friday, October 3, 2014

The Paris Review, Herta Müller, codițele şi fundițele!

Just got my Paris Review and what do I find there?  An interview with Herta Müller and this lovely photo.  Everything is SO Romanian in this photo.  I had a dress that looked so much like hers.  And the hair!  Codițele şi fundițele! 



ETA after reading it: Feels like I've read this interview many times.  Pretty much the same song, you people could've, should've etc.  The Guilt, with capital G.  Things are not even white and black, they are all black.  

History, I believe, proves to be a bit more complex.  

I still like the picture, though.

Chicago flight

In haibun (a literary form originating in Japan), prose and verse (mostly haiku) coexist; the transition between them  brings on a “shift” t...