Month: July 2020

DESPITE THE FACT that people who are bilingual or even multilingual have been around from time immemorial, the study of literary translingualism has only very recently begun to emerge. Some of this delay stems from the disciplinary limitations and boundaries of academic scholarship, but it’s become increasingly hard for the world of organized intelligentsia to ignore the fact that writing in an acquired language has become more commonplace — in large part due to the … Piotr Florczyk – The Palimpsest of Language: On Steven G. Kellman’s “Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism”Read more

“I AM NERVOUS as fuck,” read the text message. It was from Igor Levit, my friend and the renowned pianist, who’s played concert venues from Carnegie Hall to the Berlin Philharmonie. But he wasn’t about to step on stage. He was about to begin a livestream on Twitter. In what he called his first “social media house concert,” he played Beethoven’s Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, commonly known as the “Waldstein” Sonata. … Melissa Chan – Symphonies Silenced, Sonatas Streamed: The State of Classical Music During COVID-19Read more

Emily Grant Hutchings was born on January 30, 1870 in Hannibal, Missouri to Carl Schmidt and his wife. Carl was a minister and Emily’s mother was a doctor. Emily and her husband, Edwin, met Mark Twain (also from Hannibal) in June 1902. Emily and Mark Twain exchanged a few letters about writing after their meeting. On the envelope of one of the letters, he wrote “Idiot! Preserve this.” Emily mostly wrote for newspapers and magazines. … Jap Herron – A Novel Written from the Ouija BoardRead more