Avital Gad-Cykman
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Avital Gad-Cykman
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I'm deeply interested in understanding better. Flashes, short stories, poetry in magazines and anthologies, and in my books "Life In, Life Out" (Matter Press) & "Light Reflection Over Blues" (Ravenna Press) and there's more (Novels! A collection!).
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The film 12.12: The Day (2023) from South Korea. in the shadow of the coup attempt last week, this film is highly informative, disturbing and interesting. The 1979 coup and the absurd of the occurrences probably sustained democracy and left the president on his own. .
Directed by Kim Sung-su.
Marmoset and opossum: 4 bananas
Avital and Pablo: many.
A massive asteroid is due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight. But don't change your plans.
The rock will reach a minimum distance of 1.37 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Earth.
(From Live Science)
A book that kept you up?
Last night it was Happiness by Aminatta Forna.
Didn't manage to finish it, though. :)
#reading #literaryfiction #novels #writing #reviews
"Monster" is a wonderful Japanese film from 2023.
I highly recommend watching it without reading about it before.
The story is not linear and far from obvious. #Cinema #goodmovies #culture
Thank you! It adds a lot to the living room.
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Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today’s special: the radish (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)
I find this poem beautiful, and Ursula K. Le Guin is a queen.
Might as well say I am the shadow / of a leaf of the acacia tree
Joking aside, I'm responsible for a part of the design of this handrail, leaving the glasswork to Pablo and the metal work to Carlos.
The other is a story collection with the same elements.
Great to see you too! If I go back, I'll enter the list to enter even before buying flight tickets...
Hey Royo! This is so amazing, I couldn't get into this Kenyon when I was in the USA. It remains a dream.
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What's the weirdest thing that's happened to you in your writing career? Hands down, mine was when an ex wrote a book about me (a romance, no less) and subbed it to my agent.
Perhaps not the weirdest but the most awkward: I thought that my character was highly unlikable, and loved writing her because of it. To my alarm, readers commented on her opinions as if they were mine, and occasionally, they liked and agreed with her.
Have you read Arvind Adiga books?
They're fiction with political and social awareness, speaking about castes, economic differences, corruption and the (im) possibility of change.
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