20 Thursday Aug 2020
Posted in Lostintranslation, Scribbling, Stories
Yes, yes – in the end I found it.
We talked about that quote of Bernard Malamud, didn’t we? The one about stories, stories, stories, the one I was sure I’d jotted down and never found again – not in old notebooks, not in the Web… That one.
Well, as was bound to happen, I found it in the end. Continue reading
09 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Books, Scribbling
The Finest Story in the World has to be one of my favourite Kipling stories. It certainly was one of the first I read, many years ago, in a more than decent Italian translation, back when I still believed Kipling was just the man of the Jungle Books and Kim. Let us say that this particular short story, taken from Many Inventions, was a relevant step towards discovery. Continue reading
10 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Scribbling
One of my favourite pieces of K-wisdom – to be kept in mind to stave off a temptation to obsess over the proper rules of storytelling.
05 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Stories
There is this very sweet elderly lady I’ve known all my life. She’s past eighty, unmarried, very busy with gardening, embroidery and good deeds. And she is a voracious reader – with a taste, it turns out, for crime stories, mysteries and thrillers. Oh, and police procedurals on the telly. The gorier they are, the better Miss M. likes them. Continue reading
