Julia Kornberg

Nov 26, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Julia Kornberg

My 14th Summer Was Revolutionary in All the Wrong Ways Share article Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your HelpFor the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.

Nov 5, 2024 | astrapublishinghouse.com | Julia Kornberg |Jack Rockwell |Kohei Saito

A book about unrequited love, parasocial relationships, K-pop fandom, or the loneliness of modern life…A novel about the complex interior lives of women…Y/N by Esther Yi: Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant. A provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization.

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Julia Kornberg |Akiva Schick

Brandeis University Press 187 pp., $29.95 In Blanche Bendahan’s 1930 award-winning novel, Mazaltob, the eponymous protagonist Mazaltob Macías is often referred to by members of the Jewish community in Tetouan, Morocco, as “the beautiful little girl” or “the beautiful Jewish girl.” Her Uncle Salomon gazes at her and thinks, “What a sweet child! Naïve and beautiful in equal measure!” (Her name might be translated as “Good Luck Messiah.”) The belle juive (beautiful Jewess) is a stock figure in...

Sep 21, 2024 | nybooks.com | Julia Kornberg |Atomizado Berlín

Reinaldo Arenas dedicated most of his books to telling and retelling his life story. The first time was in his debut novel, Singing from the Well (1967), about his abusive childhood in the rural Cuban province of Holguín. He told it again in The Color of Summer (1982), a loosely autobiographical satire set in Havana’s underground youth circles during the jubilee of a fictional tyrant.

Sep 2, 2024 | indiehoy.com | Julia Kornberg |De Julia Kornberg

Son más que conocidos (y casi incontables) los casos de obras de la literatura que terminan en la pantalla grande: desde Shakespeare hasta Harry Potter o los Juegos del hambre, muchos de los más famosos autores del mundo moderno terminaron, eventualmente, siendo adaptados al cine o la televisión. Pero, ¿qué pasa con la música? Te contamos cinco casos de escritores o libros que, en lugar de pasar al formato cinematográfico, terminaron siendo grabados en el estudio.