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Penciltwister
www.penciltwister.com
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A literature blog - book reviews, features on literary events, introductions to genre's and currents.
#140434 in All , #330 in Literature

Closed doors, open windows and all that jazz

Wow, middle of April my optimistic self! It’s been so long since my last update, I don’t know how to pick it up again. I handed in my thesis on fanfiction in the beginning of April –...

22 may 12

Break

The blog has been put on the back burner until I have handed my thesis on fanfic in. Be back in the middle of April. Love J. (read it how you like it)

29 feb 12

A circular motion towards memory

A mind and a memory Did I already read this passage? He used that same sentence before didn’t he? What? Is there a code in this text? I’ve been reading Bjørn Rasmussen’s ‘Hude...

18 jan 12

Metro Literature

If you forgot your book, your mp3-player, your smartphone, your laptop, your magazine, in conclusion yourself, on the Copenhagen Metro there is always an alternative solution to staring at the punch-...

08 jan 12

My December read

So up to this last month of 2011 I managed to read quite a lot of books – more than usual I would say. To be quite frank, I upped up my reading because I noticed that my “Goodreads readin...

06 jan 12

The logic of the field

I went to a seminar called “Bogbranchens udfordringer” (Challenges in the publishing industry) in October. The seminar was arranged by BogMarkedet and held at Gyldendal. As well as repres...

08 dec 11

The act of reading

I love the whole and vast literary field and spend a great deal of time reading – and NO, it is not the same as saying I love to read from every particle of the field and YES, I do think that s...

03 dec 11

Bakkehusalfabetet

Last week me and my mother (in town after attending Frankfurter Buchmesse, I’m so jealous) went to the exhibition at Bakkehusmuseet on reading by poet Morten Søndergaard called “Bakkehusa...

01 nov 11

The New E-deal

From the 1st of November 2011 and for one year initially a new e-book deal will make it possible for readers and lenders to borrow e-books from the Danish libraries, effectively eclipsing the previou...

07 oct 11

Nobel Prize in Literature 2011

  Update: Tomas Tranströmer, nobel laureate. The man with his very own literary prize, Tranströmerpriset (established in 1997, with a money prize of 100,000 SEK), has just been awarded the Nobel...

06 oct 11

Wishing upon a portmonee

Ok, so you have to know this. It’s valuable information for future reference and you might just get that next dream job if you read the following text: If this was a book wish list, I would wis...

04 oct 11

Louisiana Literature 2011

Literary festivals, what are they good for? Once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all, you might say. Sure, a lot of the questions revolve around the same things; ‘how do you ...

30 sep 11

Louisiana Literature 2011 Photos

Photos from 3 of 4 days of Louisiana Literature 2011 are here. Full report will come shortly.

05 sep 11

Louisiana Literature and VMO

Autumn has kicked in and what better way to celebrate it literati style than to go to a couple of literary festivals. A couple of weeks ago I was cordially invited by one of the organisers of Vild Me...

31 aug 11

Danish immigrant literature

I have been schooled! I might have claimed in my last post that Danish immigrant literature is practically non-existent, but this is not true. I will however still assert my claim that immigrant lite...

27 aug 11

…in Berlin

It’s been so long since I’ve posted anything, but I have had so much to do lately that I barely have had time to do my work, let alone anything extra curricular. But as the title would in...

06 aug 11

Second-hand bookshopping

Hubby and I went shopping the day before yesterday and my feet are still aching after the trip. But now the bookcase is five books and one periodical richer. I don’t know how it is that I am no...

15 jul 11

If I had an iPad and a kid

When it comes to literature in digital media there is a lot going on – and especially for kids the playing field is fascinating. But that should come as no surprise since kids really are like s...

14 jul 11

The Flat Bunny

Bárður Oskarsson, Faroese children’s book author and illustrator, has just published his fourth picture book in Faroese titled “Flata kaninin” (The Flat Bunny). It will be published...

05 jul 11

Reading Herta

Beginning with an ouch and some altogether unrelated non-literary news (which, however, will excuse to some extent my complete awol from the blogosphere): My hand is f*%& up from doing work at my...

30 jun 11

Nothingness

Do you ever feel like getting out of your chair, walking out the door, climbing the next tree you see and shout existential, nihilistic quotes at people who have not seen the light – or rather,...

05 jun 11

At the little bookshop

Today I attended at reading by Manu Sareen at Harders bookshop. Sareen is the author of the series on Iqbal Farooq, and has recently published two books in a new series that are loosely based on Dani...

28 may 11 1 person likes this

Give us free

Do you know that feeling you get when you come out from a movie eeeeeverybody has been talking about and running out of superlatives to praise? And anticipations have been building up, excitement is ...

21 may 11

Grimsrudian writings

A friend and I went to yesterday’s International Author’s Stage to experience Beate Grimsrud, the Norwegian, now Swedish-based, author of works like “En dåre fri” (roughly tra...

15 may 11

Ted Talks

I have a very soft spot for spoken word poetry. And so I won’t write much in this post other than I recommend that you listen to and see this Ted Talk featuring Sarah Kay. Her poetry balances w...

13 may 11

Proudly presents:

Friday to Sunday you absolutely must come (if you are not restricted geographically or otherwise) to THE literary conference at KUA. The topic is “Literature in the Expanded Field” and th...

01 may 11

Literature and new media

  Just finished watching ‘Ordkraft’ on DR K about the linkage of literature and new media. It was very interesting and especially relevant for me because this is exactly what I am st...

31 mar 11

No, not the panty collector!

Back in 2009 I completed my BA in comparative literature with an in-depth paper on Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones”. Needless to say, I have had to mention Fielding’s name just ab...

28 mar 11

The birds

A couple of months ago I went on a walk in my neighborhood at the time people put out their bulk waste. I am continuously amazed at what things people throw away. In my own saving-student-budget way ...

09 mar 11

Spew your lunch, your history and your language on me

Sofi Oksanen, I wish I could read Finnish so I could read your debut novel in its originality. Not that the translation was bad at all. It’s just… I feel there is something embedded in th...

26 feb 11 1 person likes this

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