“Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul—the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.” L. Hughes

 

Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955)

I can imagine no better guide through the history and variety of jazz than Langston Hughes, voice of the Harlem Renaissance and poetic interpreter of 20th century black American culture. Hughes’ 1955 First Book of Jazz is just that, a short primer with a surprisingly high degree of sophistication for a children’s book. I would, in fact, recommend it as an introduction to jazz for any reader.

for more pls go to: http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/langston-hughes-presents-the-history-of-jazz-i.html

“Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!” -James Fenimore Cooper

The Last Of The Mohicans End Scene(HD)

James Fenimore Cooper, (born September 15, 1789, Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.—died September 14, 1851, Cooperstown, New York), first major American novelist, author of the novels of frontier adventure known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring the wilderness scout called Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye. They include The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841).

source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Fenimore-Cooper

for the book go to: https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-last-of-the-mohicans.pdf

Don’t Miss This Month’s Blockbuster YA Sequels!

 

Take a look at the September YA sequels Goodreads members are most excited about!

Check the list here: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1910-don-t-miss-this-month-s-blockbuster-ya-sequels

»Enis Maci gelingt in ihrem Stück etwas Seltenes: Sie findet eine Sprache, in der die Veränderungen der Wahrnehmung durch das Digitalzeitalter nicht nur wie üblich konstatiert werden, sondern in der sie sich stilistisch wirklich niederschlagen. Möglicherweise hat Enis Maci das erste wirkliche Internetdrama verfasst.« (Republik, 5.4.2019)

Mitesser von Enis Maci

Enis Maci, b. 1993, is a German writer. Her play »Mitwisser» was awarded the Hans-Gratzer Scholarship 2017 and premiered at the Schauspielhaus Wien in 2018.  In the season 18/19 Maci is a house writer at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Recent publication: Eiscafé Europa, 2018.

 „‘Eiscafé Europa' is a wild reef where all sorts of things are planted: The article discussions of Wikipedia, language and myths of her Albanian family, the appearances of young identitarians, her own youth in Gelsenkirchen, remarkably unknown poets..."
Süddeutsche Zeitung

source:https://www.literaturhauseuropa.eu/en/authors/maci-enis-1

for more: https://www.tellerreport.com/life/--%22eiscaf%C3%A9-europa%22--the-internet-as-a-bacterial-colony-.SkWRc-_piE.html

Happy National Translation Month!

This goes out to all translators and translation editors without whom "we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.” for more translated work published by Asymptote @asymptotejrnl, you can go to: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/archive/
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"we have only what we remember" -Ted Hughes

Studio Drift MEADOW

September

by Ted Hughes

We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold:

No clock counts this.

When kisses are repeated and the arms hold

There is no telling where time is.

It is midsummer: the leaves hang big and still:

Behind the eye a star,

Under the silk of the wrist a sea, tell

Time is nowhere.

We stand; leaves have not timed the summer.

No clock now needs

Tell we have only what we remember:

Minutes uproaring with our heads

Like an unfortunate King's and his Queen's

When the senseless mob rules;

And quietly the trees casting their crowns

Into the pools.