Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
Waxing Poetic: Berlin’s Live Lit Scene
Looking for lit events in Berlin? Marian Ryan outlines the best of the city's regular shindigs, salons and slams... Do You Read Me!? Reading Room photo by Achim Hatzius For literature geeks in Berlin looking to sample the local scene, there’s no shortage of salons, readings, talks and slams. In English or German, whether at big institutions like the embassies and the American Academy, the traditional, clubby Literaturhäuser or intimate Lesebühnen, options are ample. That’s not [...]
Another Country
Marian Ryan profiles one of Berlin's most characterful bookshops... In November 2010, one of the world’s best-known travel-guide brands, Lonely Planet, named Berlin’s Another Country among the top ten bookshops in the world. The quirky, thirteen-year-old Kreuzberg institution took its place at number six, alongside legends like Paris’s adored Shakespeare & Company and San Francisco’s iconic City Lights. Not a few jaws dropped among the Berlin literati. “None of the other [...]
SAND journal
Tam Eastley chats to Becky Crook, co-founder of Berlin literary journal, SAND... California native Becky Crook moved to Berlin from Seattle in October 2008. With a background in Linguistics, European Studies, and Theology, and a first-time novelist herself, she was disappointed to discover upon arriving in Berlin that the city's previous literary magazine, Bordercrossings, had shut down. In response, she teamed up with co-founder Jason Andrews to create SAND, Berlin's English Literary [...]
Teller – A Plateful Of Stories
A Q&A with Katherine Hunt and Ruby Russell founders of brand new Berlin 'story-telling' magazine, Teller... When did you decide to start Teller Magazine? The idea was brewing in the back of Ruby’s mind for years – having worked in the photo industry she thought it a shame that all the good photography magazines were so expensive and aimed exclusively people with an interest in photography. The great thing about photography is that it’s an art form that anyone can appreciate, [...]
