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Guia Cortassa

Guia Cortassa was born, lives, and works in Milan, Italy. After working as a Contemporary Art curator, she went back to writing. She is a contributing editor for Ondarock and her writing has appeared on Rivista Studio, Flair and the Quietus. She compulsively tweets @gcmorvern.
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    Peeking at Leaks

    The joy of reading other people’s mail is a well-known, well-documented phenomenon. Inspired by the Sony data hack, Lydia Kiesling investigates the pleasure of looking at famous people’s personal correspondence over at The Millions.

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    Fat and Sexy

    My curves are not in all the right places but they still bring men to their knees. This, despite the fact that I have been told that because I am fat I can’t expect to be loved, desired, to have…

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    On Boxes of Powerful Things and Bad Men

    I think often in my work the things that people are doing, just to get by, I think of as their art. It ends up looking almost a little bit like my art, even though in the context of the…

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    No Drama

    If the plot of your novel is stuck somewhere, you can try and overcome the obstacle in an undramatic way, as suggested by British illustrator Tom Gauld’s latest cartoon over at the New Yorker.

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    A Room of Chaucer’s Own

    With the help of a wonderfully ingenious pattern of inferences — in particular an architectural drawing from 200 years later which happened to include a sketch of Aldgate’s north tower at its margins — Paul Strohm is able to reconstruct…

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    All Aboard

    My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm. Not only was I seasick, I saw the population on board as…

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    Your E-Reader is Watching You

    I wonder if readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will now feel uneasy knowing that someone knows exactly which scenes they return to, and reread over and over? As Francine Prose writes over at the New York Review of Books,…

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    Weary

    It would not be so bad to drown, would it? There is the seal, bloated and rotten. And her father and mother in their caskets. And herself, what would she be? “Ah, Señor Jesus. ¿Qué se queda, Señor? ¿Qué se…

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    Let a Bot Pick a Book for You

    If you find it hard to choose a book from among the endless titles that are available, Readgeek is the tool you need. Over at Bustle, Hannah Nelson-Teutsch tested the new online recommendation bot, unexpectedly finding it extremely reliable.

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    The Language and Experience of Solitude

    Many times music and literature can evoke pretty similar feelings. That was the case for Kyle Kramer with Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild and Grouper’s latest album Ruins, as Kramer writes in a must-read essay over at Noisey.

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    Lit Vogue

    As unexpected as it may seem, French fashion label Céline has chosen a living literary legend for its new ad campaign: at the age of 80, Joan Didion is about to become a fashion icon, too. Alessandra Codinha explains further over…

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    Traditional vs. Self-Publishing

    If your manuscript is ready but you’re unsure how to get it out into the world, Electric Literature’s latest infographic might help—just follow the path to discover if you’re looking for a traditional publisher or whether you’re a DIY kind…