Storyological 2.04 - THAT DANIELA ROMO MOMENT

In which we discuss "Love" by Yuri Olesha and "The Boy Who Never Cried for Me" by Juliana Delgado Lopera. Along with, among other things, soviet architecture and the language of love.

In which we discuss

1. Love by Yuri Olesha, Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction

2. The Boy Who Never Cried for Me by Juliana Delgado Lopera, Midnight Breakfast

along with, among other things...

Yuri Olesha

An entry on Yury Olesha in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
No Day Without a Line: From Notebooks by Yury Olesha

Juliana Delgado Lopera

Juliana Delgado Lopera interview with The Toast
Profile at SFF (San Francisco Foundation)

Communism and Architecture

How the Soviet Union’s utopian ideals turned into an architectural nightmare (cnn)
The Enduring Power of Soviet Architecture by Norah Landes (artsy)

Philosophical Things

Crash Course Philosophy
W.K. Clifford
Some thoughts on epistemic responsibility (via feminist philosophers).

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

A review of Nausea by Vladimir Nabokov
Nausea as a call to action
Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre and Camus in New York

That Daniela Romo Moment

Yo No Te Pido La Luna
All Music profile of Daniela Romo

Down the Rabbit Hole

The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
From Buzzfeed, Essays About the Immigrant Experience

Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Truth

Fiction v nonfiction - English literature’s made-up divide
From Bookslut, “Creative Nonfiction: In Defense of the Truth (with a lower case t)

Faulknerisms

Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.