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Guia Cortassa

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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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Angelheaded Hipsters Burning

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 18, 2014
And we are, aren’t we, us fiftysomethings? We’re the pierced and tattooed, shorts-wearing, skunk-smoking, OxyContin-popping, neurotic dickheads who’ve presided over the commoditisation of the counterculture; we’re the ones who took…
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Books Are Here to Stay

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 18, 2014
Many people who buy exclusively e-books still like to browse in physical bookstores and look at physical books. The printed book is far from dead. At BuzzFeed Books, Lincoln Michel has…
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Simply and Swiftly

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 16, 2014
In 1906, aged 21, D.H. Lawrence wrote to his future fiancée Louise Burrows with writing advice after reading an essay on art she’d sent to him. Among many other remarkable…
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Singer-Novel Writer

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 16, 2014
“It’s sort of like comparing making a fire and building a house,” he says. “A song is fire. You react to it primarily, instantly. You don’t have to decide whether…
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Life-Changing Books

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 16, 2014
In the latest installment of “Bookends” at the New York Times, Leslie Jamison and Francine Prose discuss whether a book could ever change a reader’s life in a negative way. While…
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Royal Sex

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 11, 2014
In Rainey Royal, Landis explores the boundaries between sexual object and subject, victim and agent. Over at Salon, Eliza Berman reviews Dylan Landis’ latest novel Rainey Royal going deep into its…
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A Footnotes Advocacy

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 9, 2014
Many readers, and perhaps some publishers, seem to view endnotes, indexes, and the like as gratuitous dressing—the literary equivalent of purple kale leaves at the edges of the crudités platter.…
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The Art of Homage

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 9, 2014
But what if your entire book is based on another one? What if a certain piece of information (in the cases of these books, a writer or a specific novel)…
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Almost Like Leonard Cohen’s Blues

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 4, 2014
Besides being the amazing singer/songwriter we all know, Leonard Cohen is also an acclaimed poet and novelist. “Almost Like the Blues,” a new poem of his, is now out on…
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The Novel of Economics

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 4, 2014
Following her essay about the influence of Adam Smith’s economic theories in Jane Austen’s novels, writing at The Atlantic, Shannon Chamberlain gets back to the topic, this time debating what influence fiction…
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An Ideal MFA

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 2, 2014
How would a writer without an MFA imagine an ideal Creative Writing degree program? Over at Ploughshares, Rebecca Makkai invites you to consider her optimal 2015/2016 course catalog, warning that…
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The Game of Writing

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 2, 2014
“WRITER: THE GAME is a not-for-profit writing lifestyle simulator created by Matthew Burnside, the goal of which is to be a productive writer without succumbing to soul-crushing rejection or the wicked…
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