Amelina, Victoria. Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2025. I recently heard about this book from a colleague at work. It is a diary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians killed Amelina in 2023. Nin, Anaïs. Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Fabre, Gilles, ed. and trans. Early Morning Firefly: An Adaptation of the Japanese Saijiki. Dublin: Fishing Cat Press, 8 November 2024. There are very few English-language saijiki (compendiums of haiku season words), so when I recently heard about this one I decided to buy it. Following the Japanese publishing custom, it has an exact dateContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Writing Activity, January 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, January 2025”
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