Storyological 2.04 - THAT DANIELA ROMO MOMENT

Storyological

In which we discuss

1. Love by Yuri Olesha, Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction

2. The Boy Who Never Cried for Me by Juliana Delgado Lopera, Midnight Breakfast

along with, among other things...

Yuri Olesha

• An entry on Yury Olesha in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
• No Day Without a Line: From Notebooks by Yury Olesha

Juliana Delgado Lopera

• Juliana Delgado Lopera interview with The Toast
• Profile at SFF (San Francisco Foundation)

Communism and Architecture

• How the Soviet Union’s utopian ideals turned into an architectural nightmare (cnn)
• The Enduring Power of Soviet Architecture by Norah Landes (artsy)

Philosophical Things

• Crash Course Philosophy
• W.K. Clifford
• Some thoughts on epistemic responsibility (via feminist philosophers).

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

• A review of Nausea by Vladimir Nabokov
• Nausea as a call to action
• Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre
• Sartre and Camus in New York

That Daniela Romo Moment

• Yo No Te Pido La Luna
• All Music profile of Daniela Romo

Down the Rabbit Hole

• The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
• From Buzzfeed, Essays About the Immigrant Experience

Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Truth

• Fiction v nonfiction - English literature’s made-up divide
• From Bookslut, “Creative Nonfiction: In Defense of the Truth (with a lower case t)

Faulknerisms

Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.