Jeanne Koré Salvato

L ‘Etranger

L ‘Etranger

ranslation is a funny thing.  Because I speak two languages, I am intrigued by how we manage to get from one to another.  The New Yorker recently wrote a piece about a novella published in 1942 by Albert Camus called l’Etranger. More specifically, the...
live a little, read a little: novel 1

live a little, read a little: novel 1

ear Reader, Linda Rui Feng We interrupt our regular programming to talk about the first book in our series of seven.  For those of you who don’t know, The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY, presented a contest for debut novelists last December.  Seven...
Happy birthday, Ulysses!

Happy birthday, Ulysses!

Dear Reader, Our whole writing4godot began really with a celebration of June 16, the day in 1904 on which James Joyce’s book Ulysses takes place. This week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first printing of the book. What follows will be quirks (now...
alors

alors

ometimes there’s a short word of interest, a short blog post, a short short story. Alors is one of those words in French.  A cursory search for a definition (i.e. asking Prof. Google) gives us the English equivalent as “so.”  Well, this will be a very short...
women of paris 2

women of paris 2

he women are still walking!  Our tour guide extraordinaire, Chris Friendly, a teacher and historian who lives in Paris, has created walking tours unlike the usual ones found in the usual guidebooks.  He points out that a walking tour “covers 6,000 eccentric...