"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Prohibitionism and depression: these are the two words that come to mind, reading this collection of short stories by Dorothy Parker, in her luxurious prose and through the sharp lenses of her social criticism. Some of these are one-sided flows, voicing a dialogue from the point...
The Misconception Confession time: I hate team building. I think team building sucks. When you're a company, team building is the activity you do to wash your conscience and tell yourself people are the problem when something isn't working. When you're a team member, team building...
A few weeks ago, before all hell broke loose on the new ISO 19650, I talked about the Italian attempt at proposing codified professional profiles when it comes to Artificial Intelligence through a technical norm (UNI 11621-8: 2026). Though we all know this will result...
It's my first time reading stories by Katherine Mansfield: thank you, little clothbound Penguins, for being so pretty and triggering my collectionism. The prose is gorgeous and, after reading Shirley Jackson's short stories, you can appreciate the different twist this incredible modernist author gives to her...
Shirley Jackson might be better known for her haunting, psychological horror novels such as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House, but her short horror stories are nothing but extraordinary. And those collected in this Little Clothebound Penguin are horror...
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, widely considered one of Brazil's most important literary figures of her century. She moved to Brazil at age 5 with her Jewish family to escape persecution and deportation, and her literary production explores complex...
For the workshop I did in Bolzano, and I wanted to do something different, since I have way too many people and way too few assistants to do a proper workshop using LEGO Serious Play, so I grabbed some of the sets in the new...
It's hard to give five stars to a collection of stories, since some are bound to strike you more than others, bit up until a certain point I was tempted. "Spring in Fialta" "A Forgotten Poet" "First Love" "Signs and Symbols" "The Assistant Producer" "The Aurelian" "Cloud, Castle, Lake" "Conversation Piece, 1945" "That in...
0. The Road So Far...
This Italian booklet is actually a collection of two short stories, one by the elusive writer Nagareyama Ryñnosuke and one by the better-known Takeda Rintaro, and they're both absolutely worthy of your time. Two stories, one from the point of view of a man who turns...
