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They know not what they do

Posted on 19 June 2018 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

When Jussi Valtonen’s book won the Finlandia Prize for the best novel of 2014, my friend recommended it to me. Her husband had loved it, I would find it really interesting. But it looked so weighty, and back then, my…

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Thomas Bernhard’s poems

Posted on 5 June 2018 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Once he’d written them, he didn’t look back. He moved on to plays and novels, for which he’s much better known. He didn’t write any more poems for decades. Once he’d written them, he kept looking back. He returned and…

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