Me & some dead writers— my favorite way to spend an afternoon ☠️📖

Love her work— Carnegie Museum of Art #Pittsburgh displayed one of her poems last fall for The 58th Carnegie International.

The Paris Review

Beginning with Color: An Interview with Etel Adnan by Laure Adler

October 4, 2023 – “You make a mark, and the mark creates a situation, and this situation calls for other gestures.”

I try, but truth be told… my husband is a better cook than me— and I’m so grateful because I love great food. I’m enjoying Tilapia & pasta prepared by him tonight. #foodstr 🍁(my books hang out on my dining room table 🤷🏻‍♀️)

“In Oslo, in September, I attended the preview of Jon Fosse’s play “I Svarte Skogen Inne” (“Inside the Black Forest”). The theatre was small and dark, without a stage, and the scenery was minimal: a large illuminated rock in the middle, some scattered trees…” ~Merve Emre’s new piece about Jon Fosse 📖💫 Jon Fosse, the Nobel Prize, and the Art of What Can’t Be Named

The New Yorker

Jon Fosse, the Nobel Prize, and the Art of What Can’t Be Named

In his novels and plays, the Norwegian author has continually probed the limits of the perceptible world.

I have this— somewhere in my bookshelves.

I’ll read some Trakl poetry tonight. “Fosse has, in recent years, added to his long list of translations into Nynorsk two modern, lyrical classics: Georg Trakl’s Sebastian i draum (2019) and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino-elegiar (2022).” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2023/bio-bibliography/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=nobel_prize_announcements_2023&utm_content=post

Blessed with another beautiful sunrise… seconds before the announcement.

✨ https://www.youtube.com/live/gnN_po2389E?si=5zVCzLgm090UKfZd

#Morning read: Book 1: The Quarrel (The Iliad Translated by Emily Wilson) “At this, the seer took courage and replied, ‘The god is not upset about a broken vow, or lack of lavish offerings to him. It is the priest whom Agamemnon scorned, whose daughter he would not give back for ransom. That is the reason that the archer god gives us these troubles and will give yet more. He will not drive away the deadly plague that now afflicts the Greeks till Agamemnon returns the bright-eyed woman to her father without a ransom or reward, and carries a hecatomb to Chryse. Then we may appease the god.’ With this, he sat back down. But Agamemnon, son of Atreus, the mighty lord and warrior, stood up aggrieved, his black heart full of furious rage. His eyes shone bright as fire. He scowled at Calchas and said to him…” #Homer

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: “I first began reading Homer in high school, early in my study of ancient Greek. I liked The Odyssey, but I loved The Iliad with a passionate devotion. I have now lived with this poem for some thirty-five years-rereading it, teaching it in the original and in various translations, and, now, rendering it into English. For the past six years, I have worked intensively on this translation. But even now, when I turn back to lines I have read hundreds of times already, I find that the raw power of the Greek still startles me, like Athena suddenly tugging Achilles by the hair to stop him in his tracks. Often, I am unable to read without goose bumps, tears, or both.” ~Emily Wilson

“ST. ANTHONY’S CHAPEL, set in a small neighborhood overlooking #Pittsburgh, PA, houses the largest collection of religious relics in the world outside the Vatican. Father Mollinger, an immigrant from Belgium, left the world of medicine to serve his faith. When he learned of mass amounts of relics without homes in Europe, he personally collected them with his own funds. When there were too many in his home to continue living alongside them, he built the chapel and housed the relics there.”

Atlas Obscura

St. Anthony's Chapel in Pittsburgh

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

My colleagues shared this with me today! The Baseball Study by Recht and Leslie Findings: Knowledge of the topic had a MUCH bigger impact on comprehension than generalized reading ability did (pg. 18) With sufficient prior knowledge "low ability" students performed similarly to higher ability students. (pg. 19) The difference in their performance was not statistically significant.

Octavio Paz & Pablo Neruda — thinking of these two poets tonight— mostly Paz.

Hope everyone has a great week— blessed with this sunrise this morning on my way to school— sharing the light. #October

Audible comes in handy for book club— listening in the morning for October’s book meeting— my friend’s choice— first book of a new season.

Audible.com

The Sanatorium

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. REESE

I should be sleeping… one more (because I’m excited for Thursday). Night ✨📖 “This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded next week, on October 5th. If you’re wondering who will win the prize, well, no one knows. No one ever really knows (though last year, some people guessed), considering that the nominations and deliberations are shrouded in secrecy, and also Swedish.”

Literary Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded next week, on October 5th. If you’re wondering who will win the prize, well, no o...

Went somewhere magical tonight! ✨🐲✨

Finished reading *The Rigor of Angels* this morning (Excellent Book by William Egginton) & now I’m finally starting Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad!