@olgaz.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press) Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge) Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman Finishing 1st novel
@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialLater this month, folks...
@olgaz.bsky.socialThank you!
@olgaz.bsky.socialIs your translation online somewhere?
@olgaz.bsky.socialProbably the best move.
@olgaz.bsky.socialhow philistine of me to mix up pharisees and philistines in my continued attempt to understand pasternak's hamlet... philistines would fit that poem better.
@sashadugdale.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialAfter Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
@mikekarpa.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialCome join @mumblers.bsky.social at the Litquake small press fair in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens, 11-4 Sunday Oct 4. Readings and music on stage #Booksky
@christina500.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialThe cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded.
"Wicked and cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the Roman emperors!"
C1- Jane Eyre #Brontefest Day 1
@alisonjaye.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.social“I resisted all the way: a new thing for me…”
#brontefest
@thomasliam300.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.social"This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible."
"Superstition was with me at that moment; but it was not yet her hour for complete victory."
So good!
@elizabethrosner.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.social@alisonjaye.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialDespite all, Jane has a sense of humor.
“Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.”
#brontefest
@lizoksbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialWeek 1, Day/Ch3 #Brontefest Charlotte/Jane
-Jane wakes up bewildered
-Relief there's a stranger - Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary - not just scary usuals
-J tells Mr. Lloyd her problems
-She'd like schooling & is anxious, nervous
-She asks Bessie (singer of sad song) for Gulliver's Travels
-Welsh rabbit
@lizoksbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialWeek 1, Day 2 #Brontefest Charlotte/Jane
-Jane (described by Bessie as "like a mad cat") is restrained & brought to the red-room
-Which reminds me of The Shining...
-More of John's cruelty revealed
-Jane doesn't understand why she has to suffer; she doesn't belong
-Chapter ends w/a "species of fit"
@puncturedlines.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialOverwintered is scheduled to be released in February, 2027, and you can preorder it, which helps both writers and their publishers.
@puncturedlines.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialThis hybridity is evident in the mixture of languages, as she incorporates Russian and Arabic into her English-language poetry to reflect her multiple identities. The three poems featured below showcase these themes.
@olgaz.bsky.socialThis book is both lyrical and tells a unique and rather sad story of migration. As the world rebuilds its walls, those of us with families elsewhere become ever so trapped and disconnected. It's good to have these poems for companionship and solace.
@olgaz.bsky.socialEven the pictures transmit that quality. Amazing how looking at something so much in motion can feel calling to the body.
@olgaz.bsky.socialSo beautiful!
@yelenafurman.bsky.socialReposted by @olgaz.bsky.socialDown Pacific Coast Highway. It was hard to capture, but the waves were big. LA is an amazing place.
