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“Manuscripts don’t burn.” — Mikhail Bulgakov
It’s Mikhail Bulgakov’s birthday. The author of The Master and Margarita, one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. (It’s not his only work. There are many others. But I’ll be focusing on Master and Margarita today.) It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged fiction, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, Stalin
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News about Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof
Deja vu horrible news out of Iran. (Another story I’ve been following is the persecution of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, which has been going on for two years now. Last year he was arrested and tortured for supporting the Women … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, Movies
Tagged Iranian film, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mohammad Rasoulof
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2022 Books Read
Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, friends, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitford sisters, nonfiction, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction
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Stuff I’ve been reading
— This L.A. Times essay about Covid brain fog – and so much more – by Mary McNamara is a WILD ride, but it said a lot of the things I’ve been feeling about … everything, everywhere, all at once. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Personal
Tagged Australia, Christopher Hitchens, England, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, stuff I've been reading, The Beatles
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Master and Margarita As Graphic Novel
Fantastic idea – and take a glimpse at the artwork by Andrzej Klimowski. WOW. Beautiful! Here’s my favorite image from that slideshow. Just looking at it gives me the creeps, remembering that awful cat in the book and how much … Continue reading
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Tagged Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, politics, Russia, Stalin, war
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The Books: “The Master and Margarita” (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: The Master and Margarita – by Mikhail Bulgakov. I finally read this great great novel last fall as part of a blog-reading challenge – I wrote a big thing about it here. The book terrifies. … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, politics, Russia, Stalin, war
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From the Stacks Book Challenge: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
This was my first book on the “From the Stacks” challenge. I, of course, had heard of The Master and Margarita – and Mikhail Bulgakov – just in terms of his playwriting – but I had never read the novel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, politics, Russia, Stalin, war
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Chekhov and Bulgakov: A Russian Kind of Night
Last night I went to see an evening of Chekhov one-acts (and also adaptations of his stories into plays). Adaptations done by the wonderful Michael Frayn. I knew one of the actors – the other two in it were previously … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
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