Literature in Prague
EDITOR’S PICKS:
People & Places to know, these are our suggestions this month:
Venue’s, activities and organisations that excite us.
For your short story book club
For your book club
For writing and sharing your poetry
For your literary walking tours
For your interesting quiet place to get your writing or reading done.
For your english books
Shakespeare & Son’s
RELEVANT SCRIBBLINGS
Articles/ Essays on Literature in Prague. Or inspired by Prague.
Some of it practical, some of it just something to think about.
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Oh, Boii!
Extracted from “Oh, Boii! Bohemia and its cowboys, Bohos, Bobos, Bohoes, and Bonobos” from Melinda Reidinger’s “Regina Dentata” Substack Czech reenactors portraying the Boii in battle action. Source: Drakkaria blog. When most people hear the term “Bohemian,” their first association is usually individuals or communities with an unconventional lifestyle that disregards conservative norms in work,…
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Demonology of Desires by Joe Grim Feinberg – Review
TEREZA D. REICHELOVÁ’s review of Joe Grim Feinberg’s A Demonology of Desires, published in A2, the Czech cultural biweekly, also raises the question of the ghosts and demons of Prague’s expat culture. The Phenomenology of Spirits A Prague demon from Ohio has published a remarkable book. Published in Czech in A22026, no. 1, p. 4: https://advojka.cz/a2-article/2026-1-fenomenologie-duchu/…
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Method in the Madeness
Be it so resolved: a poet lives in you the way I knew it from every episode of Mr Roger’s Neighborhood. My go-to television as a kid in Chicago, I came to realize then and every year thereafter, that: what you see around the neighborhood—that has meant the world to me, putting words to poems…
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Joe Grim Feinberg’s Study in Folk Tales Goes Native
The Author’s Reflections on His Newly Published Novel Poet-playwright-novelist-scholar, and member of the Globe Creative Writing Group will be holding his book launch at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18th at Šternberkova 11, Praha 7 (the future kavárna L’Objet trouvé). After more than 10 years of work, my novel A Demonology of Desires has been…
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