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Mouthful Of Birds (story Collection)
''Mouthful of Birds'' ( Spanish: ''Pájaros en la boca'') is a short story collection by Samanta Schweblin. Originally published in Spanish, it was translated into English by Megan McDowell in 2019. The stories feature uncanny plot twists and unexpected endings. "Olingris" first appeared in English in a 2010 issue of '' Granta''. In 2017 "The Size of Things" was published in '' The New Yorker''. In 2019 "Toward Happy Civilization" was published in '' The Atlantic'' and was read aloud by LeVar Burton for the Stitcher Radio podcast ''LeVar Burton Reads''. Contents Literary significance and reception Like Schweblin's novel '' Fever Dream'', ''Mouthful of Birds'' received enthusiastic reviews. '' The Guardian'' wrote, "Delving into the cryptic depths of the human psyche, this is a highly imaginative and thought-provoking collection." A review in the '' Los Angeles Review of Books'' concluded, "One of the greatest effects of Schweblin's writing is the sensation of having a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentine Spanish-language author currently living in Berlin. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as '' The New Yorker'', '' Granta'',''The Drawbridge'', ''Harper’s Magazine'' and '' McSweeney’s''. Life and career She has won numerous prestigious awards around the world and her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and adapted for film. In 2002, Schweblin published her first book ''El núcleo del Disturbio'' (The Nucleus of Disturbances), which won an award from Argentina's National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008, she won the '' Casa de las Americas'' award for her short story collection ''Mouthful of Birds''. Her third collection of short-stories, ''Siete casas vacías'' (Seven Empty Houses) was published in 2015. Her first novel ''Distancia de Rescate'', literally “Rescue distance”, but translated into E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fever Dream (Samanta Schweblin Novel)
''Fever Dream'' ( es, Distancia de rescate) is a 2014 novel by Samanta Schweblin. An English translation by Megan McDowell was published in 2017 through Riverhead Books. The novel has elements of psychological fiction and takes inspiration from the environmental problems in Argentina. Main characters Amanda Amanda is the mother of Nina. She is protective and very concerned with her daughter's welfare, constantly calculating a "rescue distance". She lives with her husband and daughter in the capital and came to the country with Nina for a vacation. She does not know why she is in a clinic. David David is the son of Carla and Omar. He drank poisoned water when he was three years old and nearly died, but was saved by the woman in the green house through the process of transmigration. After recovering from his poisoning, David does not act like he used to. He no longer refers to Carla as "Mom". Carla Carla is the mother of David, wife of Omar. She was an accountant for a loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by ''The Guardian'' announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". His work led to him being labeled "the first populist surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film, the surrealist ''Eraserhead'' (1977), became a success on the midnight movie circuit, and he followed that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Link
Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Biography Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. The couple's imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House. They also co-edited St. Martin's Press's ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. (The couple inheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Early life and education Ball was born into a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School, and matriculated at Vassar College. Following Vassar, Ball attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA and met the poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, '' March Book'', with Grove Press. Career In 2007 and 2008, Ball published ''Samedi the Deafness'' and the novella ''The Early Deaths of Lube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at ''The New York Times Book Review'', and was one of the team of book critics at ''The New York Times''. As of December 2021, she was a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', a position she was first reported to have taken in July 2021. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University. Early life and education Sehgal was born outside Washington, D.C., and was raised in India, Hungary, the Philippines and Northern Virginia. She studied political science at McGill University in Montreal. After graduating, she traveled to Delhi to work at an NGO. After returning to the US, she earned an MFA from Columbia University. Career Seghal was an editor at ''Publishers Weekly''. In 2012, she became an editor at ''The New York Times Book Review''. Sehgal was a ''The New York Times'' book critic from 2017 to 2021. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Review Of Books
The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' (''LARB'' is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013. Founded by Tom Lutz, Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, the ''Review'' seeks to redress the decline in Sunday book supplements by creating an online “encyclopedia of contemporary literary discussion.” The ''LARB'' features reviews of new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; original reviews of classic texts; essays on contemporary art, politics, and culture; and literary news from abroad, including Mexico City, London, and St. Petersburg. The site also proposes looking seriously at detective fiction, thrillers, comics, graphic novels, and other writing “often dismissed as genre fiction,” and printing reviews of books published by university press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeVar Burton Reads
''LeVar Burton Reads'' is a podcast hosted by LeVar Burton, where he reads a piece of short fiction and shares his thoughts on it. Reception ''LeVar Burton Reads'' has been well received by both ''USA Today'' and ''The New Yorker''. The podcast won the 2020 Ignyte Award The Ignyte Awards are an annual literary award for the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror works and achievements of the previous year. Established in 2020 by writers L. D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo as an off-shoot of '' FIYAH Literary Maga ... for Best Fiction Podcast. References External links * You Can Get LeVar Burton to Read Your Work on his PodcastLeVar Burton Is Still Reading To Us During The Pandemic'LeVar Burton Reads' joins Twitter livestreamLeVar Burton wants to read you his favorite short storiesLeVar Burton Reading a Neil Gaiman Short Story is Even Better Than ‘American Gods’ — Listen* ttps://nerdist.com/article/levar-burtons-new-podcast-is-like-reading-rainbow-for-adults/?a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell is an American literary translator. She principally translates Spanish-language works into English. Originally from Kentucky, she studied English at DePaul University in Chicago. Upon graduation, she worked at the Dalkey Archive Press. She then moved to Chile, moving back to the US after three years to study translation at the UT Dallas. Her first work of translation was Alejandro Zambra's ''The Private Lives of Trees''. Since then, she has collaborated with Zambra on several more books. Among other books she has translated are: * ''Fever Dream'' by Samanta Schweblin * '' Things We Lost in the Fire'' by Mariana Enriquez * '' The Dangers of Smoking in Bed'' by Mariana Enriquez * ''Ways of Going Home'' by Alejandro Zambra * ''Multiple Choice'' by Alejandro Zambra * '' Mouthful of Birds'' by Samanta Schweblin *''Little Eyes'' by Samanta Schweblin * ''My Documents'' by Alejandro Zambra * ''Seeing Red'' by Lina Meruane *''Nervous System'' by Lina Meruane * ''Humiliation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stitcher Radio
Stitcher is a media company that specializes in the creation, distribution, and monetization of podcasts. Stitcher creates original shows through networks such as Earwolf and Witness Docs. Stitcher provides ad sales and distribution services to 300+ shows. Stitcher is home to one of the largest podcast listening apps. In July 2020, it was acquired by SiriusXM. The acquisition was finalized by 19 October 2020. History Stitcher was founded in 2008 by Noah Shanok, Mike Ghaffary, and Peter deVroede. The company began with just the listening app and was venture-backed until 2014 when it was acquired by Deezer. In 2016, Deezer sold Stitcher for $4.5 million to Midroll Media, a digital media company founded in 2012 and acquired by E.W. Scripps Company in 2015. In 2017, Midroll Media underwent a rebranding, making Stitcher the parent company to Midroll Media and Earwolf, another entity under the E.W. Scripps network. In July 2020, Sirius XM acquired the company for $325 million. Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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