October 2019 - Andrew Blackman

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The Good Life Elsewhere: A Dark Moldovan Comedy of Migration

To describe The Good Life Elsewhere by Moldovan writer Vladimir Lorchenkov as a comedy is slightly misleading. It’s certainly shot through with black humour and absurd situations…

Reading³⁸²
Thinking¹⁹³
Literary events⁶⁵
Living⁴¹
The writing process³⁴
On the Holloway Road³¹
Published work²²
A Virtual Love¹⁴
Travel¹³
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Andrew Blackman on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “Oh, thanks for the recommendation! Sounds like a wonderful book. It’s interesting that there’s a chapter on Borges even though…” Jun 26, 10:12
Marcie McCauley on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “I must have read this story, but I didn’t remember that they were the same person! (Maybe I will become…” Jun 25, 19:00
Andrew Blackman on The Reality of Anti-Fascism: “Yes, I suppose this was written shortly after the storming of the Capitol, which at the time I naively assumed…” Jun 25, 18:23
Gus Gonzalez on Man on Pink Corner: Borges Marathon, Part 8: “Borges takes the raw violence of a knife fight and turns it into a meditation on cowardice, performance, and myth-making.…” Jun 24, 21:54
Emma on The Reality of Anti-Fascism: “Written four years ago. How things have changed since this billet. We were in denial that the Agent Orange could…” Jun 23, 20:52

Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman

Month: October 2019

The Good Life Elsewhere: A Dark Moldovan Comedy of Migration

Reading³⁸²

Thinking¹⁹³

Literary events⁶⁵

Living⁴¹

The writing process³⁴

On the Holloway Road³¹

Published work²²

A Virtual Love¹⁴

Travel¹³

Uncategorized⁷

January 2020 Reading Roundup

Death and the King’s Horseman

“Intimacy” by Hanif Kureishi