by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Mar 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
s the world watches the financial sanctions among other penalties imposed upon Russia and Mr. Putin, the world may be tempted to think that banking problems would be the least of Mr. Putin’s worries. Au contraire! Were he to read this blog post in which a...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
ast night I listened to historian Timothy Snyder talk about the invasion of Ukraine with American author and social critic Ta-Nehisi Coates. We learned that Prof Snyder has traveled to the Ukraine for 25 years and speaks the language. Naturally, he joined...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
oday’s post features two books. First, a final reflection on the notion of the outcast, prompted by Camus’ book, L’Etranger. The idea of outcast also informs the first debut novel we have read, Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng, the first in...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Feb 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...