I love era material! This month I’m showcasing James Joyce reading his Ulysses in 1929, the letters from one of Tolkien’s friends and a special Twitter account
Dada was an artistic Avant Garde of the interwar years in Germany, one that, as many other similar artistic muvements, questioned the times and values of those years.
The post AtoZ Challenge link roundup is full of links about Weimare and the Cabaret (what a surprise!). Short writeup about my first months of 2019
March links roundup is especially stuffed with things comingup on this blog: book blogs, book relaunches, books related scavenger hunts. And Tolkien!
The usual roundup of links about history and everything 1920s, and a glimpse on what I plan to do on this blog in the next couple of months
In this month’s Gang Roundup you’ll find book recommendations (all novels set int he 1910s/1920s) and quite a few video (music and film trailers)
The roundup of December offers a glimpse on Armistice Day 100 and Noirvember, the month-long yearly celebration of film noir. Books and history as usual
A swift Gan Roundup this month, with just a couple articles about very unusual (even controversial) behaviour of the 1920s and a couple book recommendations
This month’s Gang Roundup is particularly focused on stories. Mystery novels set in Berlin in the 1920s, WWI films, dieselpunk takes at WWII
The Titanic bear one of the most haunting stories of our modern times. It is a story of tragedy, of people and birth and death. A story to rememebr after one hundred years.
So summer has arrived in this corner of the world (Italy), and if you think I'm happy, I'll just say I was a penguin in another life. You see my problem, don't you? But there's a nice side to it. Cicadas. You can hear them everywhere here in Verona. Where there's a patch of green…
I don't know what's happening to me, I'm in a total slump. Don't you hate it when it happens? I know I have so many things to do and still I can't do anything. I'm so mad with myself! Know what I'm going to to? I'm going to set a nice schedule with deadlines for…