three paintings by mamma andersson

Double Bubble, Double Tove Jansson over the past few days.

My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality from the US South to Iceland with Dr. Sciuto (#28, English and Icelandic) icelandchicago.org/2024/12/27/i...

11. Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee). One woman’s immersive monologue recounting the wounding love affair that has shaped her life brims with arresting philosophical aperçus, freighted by a keen sensitivity to the injustices of capitalist existence.

A.V. Marraccini is a writer, based in New York who has had their essay "Mutta on toisia geometrioita" translated & published in Finland, by the press Poesia.

I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).

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Per Esben Svelstad holds a Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works in the topics of ecocriticism, queer reading, literary education and more.

I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"

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some recent nordic reads

quietly put some new stuff on the website:

an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.

+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.

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