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Litro #114 – Brazil: Rio
Cover by Felipe Jardim
Table of Contents
April 2012
Letter from the Editor
By our guest editor in Rio, Sophie Lewis.
Short Stories
Nilton Resende – The Crack
Translated by Alison Entrekin
Lúcia Bettencourt – Summertime
Translated by Kim Hastings
A two-person monologue by Leonardo Villa-Forte
Translated by Jaciara Topley Lira
João Paulo Cuenca – The Tattooist
Translated by Jethro Soutar
Sérgio Rodrigues – The Stapfnunsk Report – A Decent Man
Tatiana Salem Levy – Desert
Translated by Jaciara Topley Lira
Nana Howton – Interquad (online only)
Bennett Paris – Exu’s Fedora (online only)
Poetry
Antônio Moura – The Wait
Translated by Stefan Tobler
Two poems by Angélica Freitas
Translated by Hilary Kaplan
at eleven years old
the goldmine of my mum and my aunt
Two caligrafias by Adriana Lisboa
Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty
Altitude
The Present
Two poems by Ramon Mello
Translated by Thereza Rocque da Motta
Tiles
Havaianas
Literary Nonfiction
Damian Platt – Monkey Hill
Art
Lombra
Oil on canvas by Rodrigo de Souza Leão
Event Listings
Compiled by Alex James
This Week
May 16, 2012
Growing up, our parents told us, “You can do anything you want to do.” As a consequence, which we’ve either learned from them or have concluded ourselves, we don’t want to settle for a job we don’t love. This brings us to the question, “So what do I want to do?” As a career coach, it is undoubtedly what I hear most from young professionals, as well as from my friends. It seems that we are en masse on the quest to find our dream job.
May 15, 2012
For my dissertation at university, I did a comparative investigation of four of my favorite books of fiction and their big screen adaptations: Lolita, Revolutionary Road, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Raymond Carver’s short story, ‘So Much Water So Close To Home’. Particularly, I wanted to analyse the shift in ideology when the same story is translated from one medium to another.
May 14, 2012
Lots of literary festivals lined up for May! Also Edward Lear, exiled writers, the Best First Novel Award 2012 Shortlist, literary lunches and supperclubs, etc.
May 11, 2012
Ways With Words has been running festivals of words and ideas for over 20 years across the UK in Devon, Suffolk, Cumbria, and in Italy and France. This May, it will bring to London a new 3-day literary celebration under the canopy of Opera Holland Park.
May 11, 2012
Lewis Csizmazia graduated in July 2011 with a degree in Graphic Design.
May 9, 2012
If we believe developmental psychologists (and why shouldn’t we), the events we see and experience in our early adolescent years shape us for the rest of our lives: how we behave, what we value, whom we trust, etc. These experiences influence our perceptions and assumptions not only about the world around us, but also about the role of work within it.
May 9, 2012
I love a good country pub. My husband and I will drive for ages on a two-lane road that looks suspiciously one-way, the hedges scraping off paint from the car, I unable to breathe as each vehicle passes within inches of each other at 60mph. Then we’ll finally see the wooden sign: The Red Lion, or The Queen’s Head, or The Wheatsheaf.
May 7, 2012
The 2012 London Horror Festival, which takes place over three weeks at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden from 16 October to 4 November, is now open for applications from companies and performers.
Recent Blogs
May 6, 2012
The World Burlesque Games, scriptwriting workshops, live storytelling (lies and true stories), London’s “most theatrical salon”, Granta’s “Britain” issue launch, and festivals of music, puppetry, science and Shakespeare.
May 5, 2012
A while ago, I had a discussion with another Gen Y-er about the significance of different generations in the workforce. He claimed that everybody is unique (not surprising, since he is himself a Gen Y-er) and that the pronouncements I make about generational differences are as illuminating as looking into a crystal ball, as defining as your weekly horoscope. I find both horoscopes and generational differences entertaining, but that’s where the similarity ends for me.
May 2, 2012
You may have been amused when your father had a midlife crisis – when he bought a leather jacket, started riding a motorbike and dating much younger women. However, if you are between the age of 25 and 30 and you are experiencing that lost feeling of “Is this all?”, you may have more in common with your father than you think.
May 1, 2012
Touring a standard British kitchen, I open a cabinet and find rows of mugs, like ceramic soldiers ready for the next guest invasion. There’s a kettle on the counter, a teapot, strainers, tea cosies, and an airtight box of teabags. The cutlery tray’s design tells me much about this culture: the teaspoons sit front and centre, within easy reach. I’ve already made myself quite at home, so I open the fridge, and I find its milk stock as I suspected: plentiful. I doubt a British household has ever experienced the no-milk panic because a new jug is always secured before the old one is empty.
April 29, 2012
The London Sci-Fi Film Fest, an open mic night for science geeks, the story of a ragtag bunch of D-Day spies, the Don Juan interactive movie club, a Dickens boat trip, and music and Shakespeare festivals aplenty.
April 25, 2012
Like all of you, I love books. My dream is to become a very important publisher in Italy one day, perhaps to start a company that will become successful enough to offer some healthy competition to the big conglomerates now reigning over the Italian publishing market. Recently, I went to two very helpful conferences held by the Society of Young Publishers at the London Book Fair - “How to get into publishing” and “How to get ahead in publishing”. It was amazing to meet people who work with books for a living.
April 24, 2012
Kimberly Rae writes largely for magazines and curriculums but also writes fiction. She lives in Lenoir, North Carolina with her husband and young children. This interview highlights two of her self-published novels, Stolen Woman and Stolen Child, and her thoughts on writing.
April 24, 2012
I had high expectations for the 2012 London Book Fair, in particular the new Digital Zone. We are going through a digital revolution, when how one should – or is able to – read is as much a question as any. We expect to see boundaries being pushed, new ideas on ways of reading, how a book can be made visual and interactive, and how these new technological advances can change publishing and writing. There are endless possibilities, and where better to catch the first waves of these than at the Fair?
April 23, 2012
It was really Noel Rosa who convinced me to go. If I’m trying to decide where to go out and Dama do Cabaré comes up in my playlist, I head obediently over to Lapa. In this case, happily enough, the song was De Qualquer Maneira. I hadn’t sworn any oaths, I hadn’t promised anyone, and sometimes I wonder about the wisdom of taking life advice from random Noel Rosa songs but dammit, eu ia na Penha. I was going to follow in the noble tradition of millions – millions? I’m no good at estimation – of pilgrims who have come from all over Brazil since the 19th century to climb the 382 steps of the venerable church and pay their respects to Nossa Senhora da Penha.
April 21, 2012
Jung Chang’s epic family saga Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China turns 21 this year, and it is still in print, still being read. Here in London, where she now calls home with Jon Halliday, her husband and co-author of her second book Mao: The Unknown Story, her family’s story has been adapted for the stage at the Young Vic Theatre, starring Katie Leung (better known as Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films) as the young Jung. In an interview with PEN at the London Book Fair on Monday, Jung Chang said, “What im very pleased about is that 21 years on, Wild Swans stands on its feet. It has stood the test of time. After 21 years, nobody has said, ” This is fake,” or “That is wrong,” so that’s something I’m extremely happy about.”
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