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Emersonian, doer of impossible things: curator Roberto Bolaño exhibit @CCCB, Barcelona. Ed. Spanish Granta, Writing the Prado Fellowship Chair, author A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, etc.

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Anne Carson en el #CCCB en Barcelona, entrevistada por la querida @valeriemiles.bsky.social

13.05.2025 15:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’ll be in conversation with Anne Carson on Monday, in Barcelona. She will perform “By Chance the Cycladic People” and “Possessive Used as Drink (Me) A Lecture on Pronouns”, w/ visual artists James Merry and Robert Currie and dancer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir. And we have a little surprise planned...

10.05.2025 17:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Valerie Miles: «Lo políticamente correcto no tiene ningún lugar en la literatura» | política&prosa Existen pocas actividades relacionadas con las letras que Valerie Miles (Nueva York, 1963) no haya realizado: editora, escritora, profesora… Es también, desde 2003, cofundadora, junto a Aurelio Major…

«¿Lo políticamente correcto? No tiene ningún lugar en la literatura. Una buena novela te agarra por las solapas, a veces por el cuello, por los pelos… pero siempre te obliga a sentir y a pensar.»

Una entrevista de @carmendomingo.bsky.social a
@valeriemiles.bsky.social.

30.04.2025 07:54 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has come to see President Trump’s “51st state” talk as part of an aggressive strategy to take over his country.

07.03.2025 15:56 👍 450 🔁 110 💬 83 📌 35

@aoc.bsky.social The best protest tonight is to be present, but all of you standing and with your backs turned.

04.03.2025 17:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mirar a Bolaño con otros ojos La editora Valerie Miles defiende en su tesis doctoral la importancia de las miradas en la obra del escritor

La nueva y fascinante aproximación a la figura del autor chileno a cargo de @valeriemiles.bsky.social. Lo cuenta hoy @laragomez93.bsky.social en @lavanguardia.com www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/2025...

11.01.2025 07:33 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Mirar a Bolaño con otros ojos La editora Valerie Miles defiende en su tesis doctoral la importancia de las miradas en la obra del escritor

¿Se puede leer a un escritor de forma radicalmente distinta a como se ha hecho hasta ahora? En el caso de Roberto Bolaño, la editora Valerie Miles asegura que sí y propone una nueva vía de estudio: los ojos 👀
www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/2025... @valeriemiles.bsky.social @lavanguardia.com

11.01.2025 09:40 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

To friends and acquaintances past, present, and future: “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” -Susan Sontag

04.01.2025 19:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Swish!

23.12.2024 06:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The World as a Painting”: A talk between Olga Tokarczuk and Valerie Miles - New As part of the second edition of "Writing the Prado" —an international literary residency sponsored by the LOEWE Foundation at the Prado Museum—, writer-in-residence Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018...

My conversation with Olga Tokarczuk here in English translation, on her time as a Writing the Prado Fellow, the use of image in her novels, and a few of her favourite paintings. @museodelprado.es @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social

13.12.2024 14:19 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“La historia de Nastagio degli Onesti”, de Botticelli y colaboradores, 1483 Vídeo en directo con Valerie Miles, editora de @grantabooks España, sobre la relación entre pintura y literatura, a propósito del proyecto Escribir el Prado , patrocinado por @loewefoundation #Museod...

www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/m...

12.12.2024 00:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“El mundo como una pintura”: Conversación con Olga Tokarczuk y Valerie Miles - Noticia Como parte del programa de la segunda edición Escribir el Prado –la Residencia Literaria Internacional patrocinada por la Fundación Loewe en el Museo del Prado–, se celebra un acto público que permi...

www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...

12.12.2024 00:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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22.11.2024 18:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bartleby the cat prefers Patinir.

22.11.2024 08:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@grantaesp.bsky.social Amazing species of orchid found in Peru and Colombia. Nabokov would approve… nature showing its playful, trickster side. 🦋

22.11.2024 07:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So grateful to the Southwest Review for awarding my essay “The Telepathy of Bolaño’s Archive. At the Surface of the Visible” their McGinnis Ritchie Award for non-fiction. 🍀📚🍾🥂 @southwestreview.bsky.social

21.11.2024 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fond memories of John Maxwell Coetzee’s time at the Prado as our first Writing the Prado Fellow. Here with the museum’s director Miguel Falomir, and Sheila Loewe of the Loewe Foundation, the program’s sponsor. @museodelprado.es @grantaesp.bsky.social

21.11.2024 10:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Front and center!

19.11.2024 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well hel-lo Blue Sky! 💕 🦋@bsky.app

19.11.2024 19:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A quick visit to the #BritishMuseum to see my old friend Artemidorus once again and introduce him to another friend, Chloe Aridjis. And there the ghostly photo… 🕯️

19.11.2024 09:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gorgeous #Bookerprize2024 ceremony, here with Sheila Loewe @Loewe Foundation, jury chair Edmund de Waal, and Alan Hollinghurst. Congratulations to Samantha Harvey for winning with Orbital, and to her readers, past, present and future. 📚🍾🥂

19.11.2024 09:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Prado, Renowned for Its Art, Tries a New Role: Muse to Authors Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.

Thanks Nick Casey and @nytimes.com for the in-depth piece on our Writing the Prado Fellowship –exploring imagination in fiction and painting– and Fellows J.M. Coetzee, Olga Tokarczuk, Chloe Aridjis, John Banville. @museodelprado.bsky.social #art #literature @grantamag.bsky.social #loewefoundation

17.11.2024 09:55 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0