FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

KAFKA WEIGHED DOWN BY HIS FATHER’S AUTHORITY : LIKE A CRUSHED WORM . Image: Kafka and Protocol, baruchfoundation.org When Kafka began ...

#AMREADING ROBERTO BOLANO’S THIRD REICH. Roberto Bolano on what is irretrievably lost WRITING. Exercising the memory by focusing de...

#AM READING CHRIS CLEAVE’S LITTLE BEE. OMENS AND FINDING GRIEF. OMENS . They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds han...

LOCAL NEWS FROM VIENNA 1894. CRIME, CAREERS, AND WEATHER. So what was new on 10 July 1894? GENEROSITY. Their Majesties, the Emperor ...

THE DICTAPHONE IN 1894. BETTER THAN EDISON’S MACHINE! A notice appeared in the Wiener Tagblatt of July 10, 1894: Albert Kötzlow has...