I’m honestly thankful for those moments wherein someone hails me and goes “Natalia! Camille Paglia’s written some bullshit again somewhere!” – because it keeps me blogging. Due to various professional and personal commitments, I don’t blog nearly as much as I used to. Sadpants, etc. Then, Camille Paglia writes a piece on which some editorContinue reading “Kids these days need to take their Alexander McQueen heels and get off my lawn: Camille Paglia on Lady Gaga”
Category Archives: Writers
Lyubimvoka & Gogolfest: plays in Moscow & in Kiev
So I had a reading at the Lyubimovka festival in Moscow this past Friday. It was part of a special project called “PGT” – which refers to a denomination dreamed up in Soviet times for small towns that are bigger than villages, but aren’t quite towns in the strictest sense of the word. Both ofContinue reading “Lyubimvoka & Gogolfest: plays in Moscow & in Kiev”
Agency Shmagency, or why I really couldn’t care less about “the new single womanhood”
While I read Rebecca Traister’s feature on recent memoirs by young, single American women (it’s one everything from the wonderful Carlene Bauer’s Not That Kind of Girl to the upcoming Bitch Is the New Black), I gradually became aware of the fact that I was not alone in the room. There was a persistent, monotoneContinue reading “Agency Shmagency, or why I really couldn’t care less about “the new single womanhood””
Excuse me, your headline is silly. And russophobic
Russia abandons literary past!!! ZOMG!!!11!!!eleventy!!! Um, OK. Has anyone heard of this little thing called the financial crisis? Anyone? The Russian movie industry is largely in limbo at the moment, which means that high-art projects get shelved. Trust me, I ought to know. And I just love the line about the Kremlin’s “steely” silence. WhyContinue reading “Excuse me, your headline is silly. And russophobic”
Because one of my writer friends is currently kicking serious ass
This precious gif is dedicated to him (and to healthcare reform, but mostly to him): I’d gift a horror-themed gif, because the area of kickage is horror, but unsurprisingly, there is a very limited number of happy horror gifs out there. Hm. Well. Except for maybe this one: You keep kicking ass now. And brains.Continue reading “Because one of my writer friends is currently kicking serious ass”
Natalia A. 