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Due to some technical difficulties (namely my lack of internet access at home), there's no video this week. However, I do have a little story, and a follow-up question for everyone.
Last night I went out with some friends to celebrate an engagement. Good times. At bar number two, randomly, some guy (I'll call him White Linen Pants, or WLP for short) came over and hugged and kissed by friend on the head. Awkward! Later, we were dancing, and he came back again. And again. And again. Awkward the first time. Vaguely funny the second time. Irritating the third time. Seriously pissing me off by the fourth time. And this shit happens all the time. Nothing rare about it. This is not behavior I see women engaging in.
Sure, drunk people tend to be more friendly with strangers, which is fine. Maybe we'll talk to a group of people, but I've never seen a woman repeatedly return, touching, and physically pushing her way into a group like that. Here's what bugs me about it. At least two of the times WLP came to visit, none of us even talked to him. I certainly didn't say, "Hey, come over here, WLP. Put your arm around me, too." Don't even get me started on the woman he held on his shoulder and asked us to give "birthday spankings" to.
Before starting to write this, I took a little survey of some of the women I was with, and asked them, after the numerous visits, why didn't anyone tell him to go away. I got a few different answers. Some said because WLP wasn't really near them, or dancing with or hugging them individually, he wasn't bothering them. Another said she thought he was funny. And another said it never even occurred to her to ask him to go away. That got me thinking. Because I did think about asking him to go away. But I didn't. Not because I wasn't adamant about him leaving, but because I was worried about how it would seem. I didn't want to be the angry, mean girl. I didn't want to "spoil the fun." Except this guy's presence was spoiling some of the fun for me.
Instead of just having a great time with my friends, every time he came over, he was the center of attention, and I was annoyed. Along with the hangover, this left me thinking, especially about my very cool, feminist friend who didn't consider the option of asking this guy to go somewhere else.
I swear this isn't a plug, but one thing that has been sticking with me from Jessica's book is how important it is to analyze the things we do from a feminist perspective. Not to follow any sort of rules, but to really think about the reasons behind behavior. So that's what I'm doing.
Now, you help. What do you all think? Why didn't anyone say something (at least among those of us who wanted WLP to fuck off)? Was it the booze that made me want to put being "nice" to someone else above my own good time? And if, as someone just suggested to me, you think I'm "overreacting," why do you think so?
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"Ginmar, how was I to convince my friend that his actions were innapropriate if they often got him laid?"
Gee… how are we supposed to convince rapists there actions are wrong if they don't get caught? Gee… maybe because it's just right to treat other people with respect, and to respect their boundaries (and to find out what their boundaries are BEFORE you cross them)?
Gee… how are we supposed to convince rapists there actions are wrong if they don't get caught?
Apples and oranges, I think. That comparison only works if you believe that men are encouraged to rape because some of their victims enjoy it.
Gee… maybe because it's just right to treat other people with respect, and to respect their boundaries (and to find out what their boundaries are BEFORE you cross them)??
That's more or less what I told him. But that message was overshadowed by the fact that it often worked, and a woman would go home with him.
Again, how do you convince someone that their actions are inappropriate when many of the targets of those actions don't find them inappropriate, and in fact reward him for them?
discussion, reasoning, explaining, and if all else fails, social pressure. You can always choose not to hang out with jerks, you know?
I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to read all the comments so I hope I'm not repeating an earlier sentiment. I always tell men who make myself or my friends feel uncomfortable to fuck off. I tend to start with a bit of a joke, if they react badly I'll have it out with them in a short manner. My mum always said that if you stood strong on things some people would love you and some (maybe many) would hate you. At some point I felt there was more virtue in saying the things I thought were right and good. In being able to enjoy that aspect of virtue (when I do the right thing – I am not a saint) I don't feel uncomfortable and my friends have come to love that aspect of me.
I do however, understand wrestling with whether to step in when a friend is in an awkward scenario for fear of undermining them.
I remember in college, there would be a group of "nice guys" having a beer. I creep would come in and act like a jerk. He would be obnoxious and go up to a table of women. To our surprise, one of the women would go home with him eventually. He would later tell of his conquest in the locker room. Us "nice guys" were always incredulous.
I say tell the ass-holes to fuck off. They act like ass-holes because it works all too often. If more women steped up to the plate, and told them where to go, there would be fewer guys acting like ass-holes.
i cannot count the number of times i have gone home from a bar and had a conversation with myself that mirrors this sentiment. like, i felt uncomfortable and i did not say so.
just the other night (and this is a little different, i recognize) a man sat at a table with my friend and i and our friendly conversation turned to one where he was questioning why i lived where i lived and worked where i worked. he then left to 'see if he could bum a cigarette off somebody' (class act) and when he came back he said, mind if i sit back down with you guys? and my friend pretty much nodded and i Pulled Back The Chair for Him. so not only did i not speak up, i gave him permission to continue putting me in a place i did not want to be. additionally it was a little awk because my friend (for whatever reason) sorta dug his vibe. i did leave shortly thereafter, but not so much cuz i wanted to go home but because of HIM.
and felt so mixed up about: was i worried i would hurt his feelings? do i just not know how to speak up about my own? ugh.
oh and also:
regarding the conversation that ragingmoderate is 'blaming the victim' here and so on, i just don't really see the logic in saying that a person who is friends with a space-invader (you know what i mean) who ends up going home with someone to stop being friends with that person. or that he/she can even REALLY call the guy out. a dude who has effed up social skills could be told one million times that he has effed up social skills, but if bumping up on an unsuspecting woman yields success with that woman, he's never going to see that as asshole behavior.
and i guess i say that as a person who is friends with people who don't always behave in manners that i totally support. like my friend in my above comment who was sweet on a guy i thought was a turd. but she's still my friend.
what should happen is: all interactions are consented to by all parties and no one is assuming power or dominance or claiming those things from another person. when that doesn't happen, we should be able to speak up or give a subtle cue or whatever to redistribute the power, and then everyone goes home having had a good time.
that, however, is not so much how it goes, for the most part.
I'm male and have little to no experience of the bar scene, so take this for what it's worth.
I worked for a while at a museum where the floor staff would occasionally encounter situations that were very awkward (if not outright dangerous) and we absolutely *had* to be able to handle them without causing a big fuss. The solution was to extensively role-play through various scenarios so that we had at least a minimal base of experience to draw on. I wonder if something similar might work here. Details of implementation are fuzzy, but perhaps an afternoon of Skeevy Guy 101 might be well worth the time. All that's really needed are some profeminist men willing to spend a Saturday afternoon playing sketchy characters while the women try out various approaches to getting rid of them. I suspect that it would actually end up being a lot of fun, and it might be quite illuminating as well.
I'd be willing to serve as Gropy McFeelyHands or drunken Nice Guy(tm), though I draw the line at white linen pants.
I have experienced unwelcome boundry crossing before and would like to understand my own reactions better.
Here's the story: A young guy came up to me in public. He was about 15/16; a good 8 years younger than me. He was very softly spoken and together with his age that made him seem unthreatening. He started a conversation and part way through asked if he could hug me. Although I felt extremely uncomfortable I said yes. It was a bizare response. He then hugged me and lingered even though I was obiously trying to disengage. I continued to talk to him and he immediately asked if he could kiss me. Thankfully I was able to say no. I kept talking to him politely with a smile on my face even though inside I was screaming "OMG! Run away from the pervert!" He then hugged me again and again lingered long past the point that I was trying to disengage. I politely finished the conversation, said goodbye and left. At no point did I let him know I felt violated.
My questions are these; why on earth did I let him do any of these things? When he did them, why didn't I let him have a gigantic piece of my mind?
I am not a shy person, I'm usually assertive, why was this situation different?
This whole thing really bugs me.
Unwanted male attention is one of those universal women's issues. It transcends age, race, culture, education, socioeconomic status, etc. I dare say that while we all struggle with effective ways to deal with it, is it not a little lame for us to feel the need to treat it with such kid gloves simply because it's unwanted "male" attention? Would we feel similarly challenged if the unwanted attention were coming from another female? Probably not – because we know the territory a little better and perhaps feel less threatened by potential reprisals. Or if the behaviour occurred in another setting, like at work or the grocery store, we'd rise to the occasion differently. Maybe it's because I'm just too old for WLP's kind of shit but my response to that kind of situation tends to just cut to the chase, congenially and with lots of eye contact. Particularly if I'm in a BAR, where I already KNOW there are likely gonna be a few drunk and disinhibited people. The (pink?) 'elephant in the room' can be graciously -which is not necessarily synonymous with "politely"- and firmly dealt with when someone has the temerity to simply point it out and address it. Regardless of gender, there are only two possible outcomes in that kind of exchange – you win or they win. And if they're drunk and you're not, who's most likely to have the upper hand in determining the course of the exchange? You can offend them or you can recruit them. One's ability to portray authentic self-confidence is not always wholly contingent upon one's political stance on gender inequality. Remove the gender-fear angsting and watch what happens. Again, it may just be my fifty one years speaking, but as a lifelong feminist (like since even before it had a name) I don't feel the need to bounce EVERY exchange with a male off my inner Fem-o-meter. Assholes come in all shapes and sizes and genders. Dealing effectively with them is like anything else we learn – practice makes perfect. (And God bless getting older cuz it somehow expedites weeding out the bullshit sooner rather than later…)
Just thinkin' out loud…
Here's a question:
How do you deal with it if the guy crossing boundaries is a friend of your male friend, who's also present in the room? Is it still okay to tell them to fuck-off, or would you be more careful?
I have no problem calling out friends of my male friends. Often times I feel that they assume I must be sleeping with my guy friend so they treat me differently. After putting them in their place once they usually stop it. My guy friends think it's funny more often than not.
Case in point: I went to my now fiances' boss' house to play poker with them and some other people. During a hand a guy called me "honey" I promptly corrected him by stating what my name was and that it wasn't honey. I rudely responded that he was trying to be polite and I told him that he wasn't and if he wanted to be polite he would address me by my name. AFter the game my fiance's boss yelled at him that he "let me" confront the guy instead of "protecting me" himself. My fiancee just laughed and told him that 1. I can handle myself better than anyone could ever attempt to. and 2. If he had tried to "protect me" I probably would have told him that I could speak for myself.
I'll add my voice to Andrew's.
Pretty early on, I figured out that there were two basic strategies to 'meeting girls'.
First, go to a bar, and invade their personal space. Try it often with a lot of differnt women, one after the other. Eventually, one of 'em will respond. I watched it work time and time again.
Alternatively, get engaged in a group conversation at a party, and try to break it up into a 2-way chat by saying something like 'That was interesting, what you were saying about X …'.
Environments dominated by noise, crowds, etc, the second strategy doesn't really work. Oh well.
But the effectiveness of the first strategy always amazed me.
Best way to handle it? Reciprocal rudeness. Tell him to piss off. I really doubt it will harsh his buzz for very long.


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So I got free tickets to go to the filming of "A Farewell to Harry Potter", a tribute they were filming at Lincoln Center for the Scream Awards on Spike next Tuesday.
It was a pretty awesome experience. Everyone had really incredible costumes. They had us wait a few hours inside Lincoln Center theater and then brought us outside to a stage they had built by the fountain. Samuel L. Jackson is hosting, so he came out first to introduce Dan, and then Dan came out, and said thank you to everyone. (By the way, Dan had the sickest outfit ever. I'm planning to buy it all. Check it out on Tuesday).
It worked out well too, because we went to the backside of the stage, and because of where we were, security let us go to the walkway where he would enter and exit the stage. That's how I got the close up pics of him (though damnit, I forgot to turn the flash on. But I guess the purple has kind of a cool, hipster effect). It was awesome too, because the girl next to me asked for an autograph, which he gave, but while he was signing it he was like right in front of me.
All in all, a pretty awesome night. And the guy filmed the girl next to me getting an autograph and freaking out afterwards, so if that gets on TV, I'll definitely be on tv. Me and Sam kept doing this funny waving thing that our group came up with when we went to Wizarding World, so I'm looking forward to potentially seeing us doing that!
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Lightning Rods is published by And Other Stories.
José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa began his writing career as a poet and has since written some eighteen novels, four of which have been translated into English by Daniel Hahn, with The Book of Chameleons winning the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Marian Pilot
Marian Pilot (born 1936) is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His novel Pióropusz (Quill Feathers) won Poland's top literary award, the NIKE, in 2011. Featured Reading Group Title: Pióropusz […]
Herkus Kuncius
At a time of limitless supply and a surplus of intellectual products I do not seek to be heard (urbi et orbi) by a yogi or dervish, to be understood by a Papuan, Geisha or some illiterate. Here, and not […]
Nicos Panayotopoulos
Nicos Panayotopoulos was born in Athens in 1963. He studied engineering, but at the same time took drama courses at the Hellenic-American Union. Initially, he worked as an arts journalist for newspapers, magazines and television. Since 1992 he makes a […]
Jean-Marie Gourio
Jean-Marie Gourio (b. 1956, Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne) is a novelist, humourist and screenwriter. His work was first published by the satirical magazine Hara-Kiri, where his column Brèves de comptoir – consisting of humorous quotes and anecdotes overheard in Parisian bars […]
Gabrielle Wittkop
I intend to die as I lived, a free man. – Gabrielle Wittkop Gabrielle Wittkop (née Menardeau) was born in Nantes in 1920. She taught herself to read by the age of four – "I got the feeling of absolute power" – and […]
Michał Witkowski
Michał Witkowski's Drwal (The Lumberjack) is featured in our Polish Reading Group Winter-Spring 2013.
Dulce Maria Cardoso
Dulce Maria Cardoso was born in Fonte Longa, Portugal in 1964, and was only six months old when her family moved to Luanda, Angola. There, she learned to read and write and in 1975 she became one of the […]
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He now lives in Barcelona, Spain, and has two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. Down the Rabbit Hole is his frst novel. It was published in 2010 and has already been translated into seven languages.
Down the Rabbit Hole is published by And Other Stories.
Chi Wei-Jan
Chi Wei-Jan, born in 1954, is a Taiwanese essayist and playwright. Private Eyes is his first novel. His plays include MIT: Mad in Taiwan (2008), The Mahjong Game Trilogy (1997-2007), and One Bed, Four Players (1999). He is a university professor […]
Ondjaki was born in 1977 – two years after the country gained its independence from Portugal – and grew up in a country at war. Now living in Rio de Janeiro, he has over a dozen books published, including collections of poetry,children's stories and novels.
Inga Iwasiów
Inga Iwasiów (born 1963) is a writer, literary critic, professor of literature, editor-in-chief of the bimonthly Pogranicze ("Borderlands"), and organiser of cultural and intellectual life in Szczecin where she was born and has always lived. […]
Christoph Simon
Christoph Simon was born in 1972 in Emmental, Switzerland. After travels through the Middle East, Poland, South America, London and New York, he has settled in Berne. Zbinden's Progress is his fourth and already highly acclaimed book.
Zbinden's Progress is published by And Other Stories.
Thanasis Triaridis
Thanasis Triaridis (Thessaloniki, 1970) is considered to be one of the most unconventional and important contemporary Greek authors. From 2000 to date he has published, in various forms, 30 books of narratives and essays, while in 2004 he started his […]
Jérôme Nouhouaï
Jérôme Nouhouaï was born in 1973, in Abomey, Republic of Benin. He has taken part in the Caravane du livre, a project to promote reading in African schools, and currently works for a research institute in Benin. Nouhouaï has written […]
Carlos Gamerro
Carlos Gamerro is one of the best-known and most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers. Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, he has published six works of fiction, including the novel The Islands.
The Islands is published by And Other Stories.
Ana Teresa Pereira
Ana Teresa Pereira was born in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, where she still lives and writes. In 1989 she published her first novel, Matar a Imagem (Killing the Image), which won the Caminho Crime Writing Prize. Over two decades and more […]
Susana Moreira Marques
Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and journalist. She was born in Oporto in 1976 and now lives in Lisbon. Having worked as a journalist since 2004, she now writes pieces for Público and Jornal de Negócios. Susana lived […]
Now and at the Hour of our Death is published by And Other Stories.
Pola Oloixarac
Described by Spanish newspaper ABC as 'the new sensation in Hispanic literature', Pola Oloixarac was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires. She claims to have started writing at the age of seven and finished her first novel aged eight.
Han Dong
Born 17 May, 1961 in Nanjing. Han Dong's parents were banished to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, taking him with them. When the Cultural Revolution ended, he studied philosophy at Shandong University, graduating in 1982. After teaching in Xi'an […]
Fabienne Juhel
Born in Saint-Brieuc in 1965, Fabienne Juhel is a professor of modern letters in the Côtes-d'Armor region of Brittany. Her first novel, La Verticale de la lune, was published by Zulma in 2005. Her subsequent novels – Les bois dormants (2007), À l'angle du […]
Anne Cuneo
Photo Credit: © Willi Spiller, CH 8001 Zurich Anne Cuneo was born in Paris to Italian parents, and raised in Switzerland and in England. She is a writer, filmmaker and journalist, and holds a degree in literature from the University of Lausanne. Her […]
Tregian's Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician is published by And Other Stories.
Oleg Zaionchkovsky
Oleg Zaionchkovsky worked as an engineer in a rocket factory in the small town of Khotkovo until a recent move to Moscow.
Happiness is Possible is published by And Other Stories.
Pavlos Matesis
Pavlos Matesis was born in 1933 in the Peloponnesian village of Divri and lived in numerous provincial towns until he was 19. He studied acting, violin and foreign languages (English, French and Spanish). He taught theatre at the Stavrakou School […]
Hani al-Rahib
Hani al-Rahib (alternate transcription: al-Raheb) was born in 1939 in the coastal Syrian city of Lattakia. He published his first novel The Defeated (1961) while still a student at the University of Damascus, launching his career to early acclaim. […]
Antonio Ungar
Born in Bogotá is 1974, Antonio Ungar has published six books, incl. Tres ataúdes blancos (Three White Coffins), which was awarded the Premio Herralde in 2010. He was also included in the Bogotá 39. Ungar professes to be a nomad with no specific national identity.
Mário-Henrique Leiria
In his own words from the author's biography in Gin and Tonic Tales: 'Mário-Henrique Leiria was born in Lisbon in 1923. He went to the Escola de Belas Artes, and left rather hastily. Between 1949 and 1951 he was part of […]
SJ Naudé
SJ Naudé grew up in South Africa, where he studied law. After practising law in New York and London for many years, he returned to South Africa for a master's degree in creative writing. The Afrikaans edition of The Alphabet […]
The Alphabet of Birds is published by And Other Stories.
Johannes Jansen
Born in 1966, Johannes Jansen grew up in Freiburg, Leipzig and East Berlin. In the 1980s he became part of the avant-garde literary movement in East Berlin.
Lu Nei
Lu Nei, one of the summer 2012 Chinese reading group authors, was born in 1973. He's been a worker, a salesman, a warehouse manager, a radio broadcaster and a creative director for an advertising agency.
Marc Biancarelli
Marc Biancarelli, a high school teacher of the Corsican language, is also an accomplished writer in both French and Corsican. Biancarelli's latest novel Murtoriu recounts the events leading up to the murder of the taciturn Mansuetu, one of the last Corsicans still […]
Haroldo Conti
Photo Credit: © Marcelo Conti Haroldo Conti was born in the province of Buenos Aires in 1925. He studied at a Salesian school and a Jesuit seminary before graduating with a degree in philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. In […]
Southeaster is published by And Other Stories.
Peter Kurzeck
At quite an early age, I gave in to the irresistible urge not to forget anything because everything that we cannot remember may be lost forever. If we know nothing of yesterday, yesterday never was, neither was Bohemia, and neither […]
Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi is a novelist, journalist and essayist. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Florence, the city where he was born in 1959. His novel La forza del passato (The Force of The Past) won the Campiello and […]
Mustafa Khalifa
Mustafa Khalifa (b.1948) is a Syrian author. He went to university in France, where he studied art and film direction, and was arrested at the Damascus airport when he returned from Paris. From 1982-1994, Khalifa was held without trial at […]
Carmen Boullosa
El complot de los Románticos by Carmen Boullosa is one of the And Other Stories reading group books for our winter 2011-12 Spanish-language group. She is a Mexican novelist, poet and playwright whose writing has been praised by writers including Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska and Roberto Bolaño.
Rui Zink
Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961. He is a writer, university lecturer and cultural commentator. He has published eight novels including his debut Hotel Lusitano (1987, re-released in 2011), Os Surfistas (The Surfers, 2001), Dádiva divina (Gift from God, which won the 2005 Portuguese […]
Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied in Mexico and El Paso and took his PhD at Berkeley. Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos […]
Elena Chizhova
Elena Simonovna Chizhova, born in Leningrad in 1957, has established herself as one of Russia's leading modern writers. Over the last decade, all her novels have received prestigious awards and recognition, culminating in the Russian Booker Prize 2009 for her latest work, A Time of Women.
João Ricardo Pedro
João Ricardo Pedro was born in 1973 in Reboleira, Amadora. Curious about the Lorentz force, he went on to study electrotechnical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. For more than ten years João worked in telecommunications, never having to […]
Jean Rolin
Traveller, acclaimed writer and grand reporteur, Jean Rolin (b. 1949) is one of France's best-known writers, with a long backlist establishing his distinctive 'Rolinian' territory: 'psychogeography,' real-life journeying and self-mapping; a fictionalised blend of memoir and classic travel writing; ruthless […]
Olga Gonçalves
Poetry was Olga Teixeira Gonçalves' first love and she published half-a-dozen collections in the decade from 1973. A Floresta em Bremerhaven (The Forest in Bremerhaven, 1975) was her first novel on emigration, which was reprinted four times and won her […]
Carola Susani
In Italy Carola Susani is hailed as "the worthy heir of Elsa Morante", and as one of the strongest writers of her generation. She was born in Marostica (Vicenza) in 1965. Susani is being read in our 2012 Italian reading group.
Mamdouh Azzam
Mamdouh Azzam is a Syrian novelist, whose social and political critique paints a vivid and condemning portrait of life under dictatorship in Syria. Much of Azzam's work is set in his native southern Syria among the Druze community. His most […]
Katharina Faber
Katharina Faber was born in 1952. Strange Signals, her second novel, was published in 2008. It is in its fourth German printing, has been translated into Chinese, and was adapted for theatre by the North by North West Kulturprojekte. Featured […]
Abilio Estévez
El navegante dormido by Abilio Estevez is one of the And Other Stories reading group books for our winter 2011-12 Spanish-language group. He is a prize-winning Cuban writer living in exile in Barcelona.
Angela Readman
Photo Credit: © Kevin Howard Angela Readman's stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, and have won awards including the Inkspill magazine Short Story Competition in 2011 and the 2012 National Flash Fiction Competition. Don't Try This at Home, […]
Don't Try This at Home is published by And Other Stories.
Oleg Pavlov
Oleg Pavlov was only 24 years old when his first novel, Captain of the Steppe, was published, receiving praise not only from critics but from the jury for the Russian Booker Prize, which shortlisted the novel for the 1995 award.
Captain of the Steppe is published by And Other Stories.
Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares is widely hailed as one of the leading lights of modern Portuguese literature. He was born in Luanda, Angola in 1970 where his parents were teaching at the time, but grew up in Portugal. His work has […]
Andrey Baldin
Andrey Baldin (Андрей Балдин) was born on 21 January 1958 in Moscow. An architect and a book designer, Baldin has published a number of non-fiction books, including Moscow. The City Painted in Proverbs (1997), Moscow Idle Days (2010) and Point Extended, […]
Nicolas Bouyssi
One fine day a solar system which is no longer in motion was formed – no longer because its motion is settled. In order for it to go into motion again, there's a need for something that demolishes. This is […]
Kathrin Röggla
Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian author and playwright, as well as a prolific writer of radio plays. She is a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Her work, which is often political in tone and critical of the […]
Valérie Mréjen
Valérie Mréjen (b. Paris, 1969) is a writer and a performance and video artist, trained at France's Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Arts. She was an honorary member of the experimental literary group Oulipo in 2001, and a Prix de Rome […]
Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili was born in Tiflis, Georgia in 1983. She is an award-winning novelist, playwright and theatre director and has been writing in Georgian and German since the age of twelve. Her debut novel Juja was longlisted for the German […]
Vasco Pratolini
The author of no fewer than 18 novels, Vasco Pratolini is regarded as one of Italy's greatest 20th-century novelists. He was also a successful literary translator, journalist, and film screenwriter. His first novel, Il tappeto verde (The Green Carpet), was […]
Niyati Keni
Niyati Keni was born in London. She studied medicine and still practises as a physician. She has travelled extensively within Asia, including in the Philippines where her debut novel, Esperanza Street, is set. Niyati Keni is based in West Sussex […]
Esperanza Street is published by And Other Stories.
Aleksey Slapovsky
Aleksey Slapovsky was born in 1957 in the region of Saratov, Russia. He started his literary career in the 80′s as a dramatist; his first significant work is called 'Sincere Artist, Unwritten Novel' (1990). He made his name with the novel 'It's Not Me' (Russian title «Я НЕ Я») which was short-listed for the prestigious national Booker Prize.
José Cardoso Pires
José Cardoso Pires is an author featured in the winter 2012 And Other Stories' Portuguese reading group.
Bohdan Ihor Antonych
The Lemkos region (Ukrainian: "Лемківщина"), where Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909 – 1937) was born, is situated among the Carpathians and consists of gently undulating pastures rising to fir-lined mountains and limestone escarpments. The Lemkos (Ukrainian: "Лемки") were a Ukrainian mountain people whose […]
Mia Couto
Mia Couto was born of Portuguese parents in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955. In 1974, he went to Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) to study medicine, but became involved in nationalist politics immediately before and after the coup in Lisbon, which brought […]
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel lives in Potsdam, just outside of Berlin. She trained as a bookseller and then studied German and American Literature and Psychology in Potsdam and New York. The name Rávic is entirely invented to describe a separate identity […]
Hubert Haddad
Hubert Haddad was born in Tunis in 1947. He published his first collection of poems, Le Charnier déductif, in 1967. His first novel, Un rêve de glace, was published by Albin Michel in 1974, since when he has published […]
Angelika Klüssendorf
Angelika Klüssendorf was born in 1958 in Ahrensburg, in the former East Germany. She lived in Leipzig from 1961 to 1985, when she moved to West Germany. Today she lives in Berlin. She has written three novels, three collections of […]
Rodrigo de Souza Leão
Rodrigo de Souza Leão was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965 and died in a psychiatric clinic in Rio in 2008, shortly after his extraordinary autobiographical novel All Dogs are Blue was published. Due to his mental fragility, Rodrigo de Souza […]
All Dogs are Blue is published by And Other Stories.
Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira (1916-1997) is one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language of the last century. As a teenager, he studied in a seminary and later attended the University of Coimbra. His experiences […]
Juan Francisco Ferré
In our time I can only conceive of realism in an expanded form, absorbing innumerable imaginary elements. Today it is impossible to be a realist without acknowledging the interference of technological fictions in daily life. For the contemporary writer the […]
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was born in 1966 in Equatorial Guinea, Africa's only Spanish-speaking country. His parents were from the remote Annobón Island, off the African coast. His books include the novel Avión de Ricos, Ladrón De Cerdos (The Pig […]
By Night the Mountain Burns is published by And Other Stories.
Taras Prokhasko
Featured Reading Group title: Тарас Прохасько, "НепрОсті" – Taras Prokhasko, The UnSimple The book, first published in 2002, is available online. Its English translation, by Uilleam Blacker, appeared in Ukrainian Literature, a journal of translations based in Canada (2, 2007; 3, 2011). Download Part 1 and Part […]
Maria Velho da Costa
Maria Velho da Costa is a Portuguese writer, the author of more than a dozen books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Born in Lisbon in 1938, she became infamous in 1972 with the publication of Nova cartas portuguesas (New Portuguese […]
Silke Scheuermann
Silke Scheuermann, born 1973, first gained acclaim for her poetry. Educated in Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, and Paris, she studied literature and theatre studies. She is the author of three novels, of which The Hour Between Dog and Wolf was […]
Benjamin Lytal
Benjamin Lytal has written for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, and the Nation. Originally from Tulsa, he currently lives in Chicago. A Map of Tulsa More information A Map of Tulsa is Benjamin Lytal's first novel. […]
A Map of Tulsa is published by And Other Stories.
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Considered by many to be the enfant terrible of Portuguese literature, Miguel Esteves Cardoso was born in Lisbon in 1955 to a Portuguese father and English mother. A writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, and music critic, among many other things, MEC […]
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is the author of the highly praised Double Negative and The Restless Supermarket, as well as award-winning non-fiction, Portrait with Keys. Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative was shortlisted for the South African […]
Double Negative is published by And Other Stories.
Agustina Bessa-Luis
Maria Agustina Bessa-Luís Ferreira Teixeira was born on October 15, 1922, in Vila Mea, Amarante, Portugal. Agustina began writing in her teens, although she only published her first work of fiction, Mundo Fechado, […]
Félix Bruzzone
Félix Bruzzone spends most of his time beside the swimming pool. That's not to say he lives a charmed life but rather that despite being one of Argentina's most celebrated young novelists, Bruzzone has to earn a living. And Bruzzone […]
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón was born in Gijón, Asturias in 1971 and has been hailed as one of the most interesting and profound writers of contemporary Spanish fiction. He writes for newspapers such as El País and a range of literary […]
Igor Ostachowicz
Igor Ostachowicz (born 1968) graduated in international relations. He has worked as a paramedic at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, as a manager at a number of companies, and for the past few years as a civil servant. At […]
Rui Cardoso Martins
Rui Cardoso Martins is a Portuguese writer whose works include long and short fiction, screenplays, TV comedy shows (including a popular puppetry series of political satire) and award-winning journalism. Born in Portalegre in 1967, he published his first novel in […]


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We took your questions today on everything -- including Charlie Sheen showing clear signs of a plea deal, Mel Gibson owning the rights to Oksana's music, and the dude who KO'd Suge Knight gets violently choked out.
Plus: Jon Bon Jovi -- caught in some seriously scandalous pics!
Do you think Timothy Dalton's former relationship with Oksana is going to come to light more and more? I don't recall hearing her accuse him on the same things she is doing with Mel. Granted, she has Mel on tape, but it makes you wonder what she may have on 007.
You better smarten up Charles.. Don't be such an a$$ with the ego you are sporting.
The way I see it.. Harvey puts one to run the show and the worst employee to join him on TMZLIVE. MIKE.. you rock.. Charles is obviously the low rent fill in.
What happened to Ali Lohan releasing an album?
Hi guys, why is everyone so upset with Jon Bon Jovi? All rock stars have little pieces of sexy in their closets from climbing up the ranks. Give the guy a break!
HIRE ME! I love your show!
I wish the braids guy didn't have on such tight pants. Terrifying crotch.
Apparently you guys don't know what Paris is doing in St Tropez.
Check this website:
A Malaysian millionaire paid her to be his escort for a month.
Are your parents proud that you cover the lives of celebrities for a living? LOL
Kinda sad brother's.
Braids guy...time to go up a size homey.
Why do people complain about people being let out of prison early?
Why don't they approach the politicians to offer to pay 50 percent of their income in tax instead, so the criminals remain locked up for the time the judges decide.
In Denmark we have to ensure long prison sentences. The media has told us that massive home invasions made my former east European soldiers driving in Trabants which are the only cars which can withstand acid rain will be the alternative. So we pay up. People serve their entire sentence and as result the crime rate is low.
Why does it not happen in Hollywood?
I glad Charlie shen is going to be okay and it should work out okay
Since there is a question everyday about you guys throwing paper on the floor, why don't you get a recycle box & throw the papers in there?
why does the fat kid always wear the same thing. black shirt ( FAT SIZE ) ans some ugly faded jeans or llke fat pants sweat pants
when are you going to show chris brown arrest pictures
What are the chances that someone makes a porn flick parodying the alleged hit on Harvey? The stripping part sounds like it would be hot.


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When Will Kate Middleton Get Pregnant?by Free Britney at . Comments
If you thought British royal family gossip would dissipate after the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William April 29, you thought wrong.
There's the royal couple's secret honeymoon, and the question of whether Chelsy Davy will wed Prince Harry in a royal wedding of their own.
Not to mention the fascination with Kate's sister, Pippa Middleton.
Yeah, the royals are not going anywhere. Especially since really, it's only a matter of time until Kate Middleton pregnancy speculation begins!
JUST MARRIED: Let the Kate baby bump watch begin!
At some point, there is probably going to be a baby. Even before that, there will be gossip about when there will be a baby. Potentially a lot of it, in fact.
"There's a good chance that she will be pregnant in the next year or two, because, well, that's what royals do," one British royal family expert opines.
Kate Middleton is 29 and Prince William turns the same June 21, so the timing would make sense. Not that fans need a royal baby to remain interested.
Searches for Will and Kate's honeymoon rose 289 percent this week from last, and their upcoming trip to America generated a similar online response.
Long story short, don't expect the royal couple or their siblings to drift into obscurity anytime soon. Two billion people watched the wedding, after all.
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She will always be Kate Middleton to us. Or at least kate.
Why do we continue to use the name "Kate Middleton? Unlike most brides, she did not get a new last name -- because her husband does not have a last name. And most of us on the left side of the puddle are to dense to remember to whom "Catherine, the Duchess of Cornwall" refers.
no assumptions please. Some people have fertility issues
why have they taken ten years for decision but this couple is sooo sweet and lovely with best wishes for a happy life
I wish Kete will get pregnant very soon.
God bless the Royal family...
@neon: it's been royal tradition for closer to two thousand years, maybe even since the beginning of mankind for the wife to become pregnant with an heir within the first year of marriage. I do agree with you, however, that William and Catherine will begin a family of their own on their time. I would actually be surprised if she did become pregnant in the first year.
Will and Kate are so refreshing to look at they are always smiling and seem extremely happy. Someday they will make beautiful babies. Love and Luck to them both from Brockton,Massachusettes/USA.
Wow.what's wron if she is preg they a happily married now is time 4 them to hve kids n b happy.2 hve kids doesn't distroy anythin.LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS U LOVE UR SELF.


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Abstract. Measured upwelling radiances from Nimbus-7 SBUV, seven NOAA SBUV/2 and the AURA-OMI instruments have been used to calculate the 340 nm Lambertian Equivalent Reflectivity (LER) of the Earth from 1979 to 2011 after applying a new common calibration. The 340 nm LER is highly correlated with cloud and aerosol cover because of the low surface reflectivity of the land and oceans (typically 2 to 6 RU, where 1 RU = 0.01 = 1.0%) relative to the much higher reflectivity of clouds plus aerosols (typically 10 to 90 RU). Because of the nearly constant seasonal and long-term 340 nm surface reflectivity, the 340 nm LER can be used to estimate changes in cloud plus aerosol amount associated with seasonal and interannual variability and decadal climate change. The annual motion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, episodic El Nino Southern Oscillation ENSO, and latitude dependent seasonal cycles are apparent in the LER time series. LER trend estimates from 5° zonal average and from 2° × 5° latitude × longitude time series show that there has been a global net decrease in cloud plus aerosol reflectivity. The decrease in global cos2 (latitude) weighted average LER from 60° S to 60° N is 0.79 ± 0.03 RU over 33 yr, corresponding to a 3.6 ± 0.2% change in LER. Based on energy balance partitioning (Trenberth et al., 2009) this corresponds to an increase of 2.7 W m−2 of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface (an increase of 1.4% or 2.3 W m−2) absorbed by the surface, which is partially offset by an increase in longwave cooling to space. Most of the decreases in cloud reflectivity occur over land, with the largest decreases occurring over the US (−0.97 RU decade−1), Brazil (−0.9 RU decade−1), and Central Europe (−1.35 RU decade−1). There are reflectivity increases near the west coast of Peru and Chile (0.8 ± 0.1 RU decade−1) over parts of India, China, and Indochina, and almost no change over Australia. The largest Pacific Ocean change is −2 ± 0.1 RU decade−1 over the central equatorial region associated with ENSO. An area in Central Greenland shows a decrease in reflectivity of −0.3 ± 0.03 RU decade−1 caused by cloud and possible surface changes.
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UAE: Market for plasma televisions booming
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The market for plasma televisions in the UAE is set for a record of 367 per cent growth in four years even as the rate of decline in prices would continue at 12-15 per cent per annum, according to distributors, cited by Khaleej Times.
Deepak J Babani, CEO, Eros Group. was quoted by the paper as saying the television market, especially the plasma TV market, has been witnessing a steady annual growth of 80 per cent. Babani conveyed plasma television sales grew four-fold - from 4,000 units in 2003 to 12,300 units last year.
Babani made these remarks said at the launch of a new line up of Hitachi Plasma TV-7800. "Priced from Dh11,900 to Dh16,500, the 7800 series is offered in 32, 37 and 42 inch formats," he said.