Escribiendo en “Pájaros de la cabeza” (Pagina 12, 27.05.12) la artista argentina Viviana Blanco invoca a Elena Poniatowska, la escritora y periodista que es la Vice-Presidenta de Interlitq: “Entre todos los libros que tenía me faltaba uno de mis preferidos: Max Ernst. Empecé entonces a buscarlo por los talleres de mis amigos, pero en lugar de Ernst me encontré con la biografía de una de sus amantes –así me dijo mi amiga mientras extendía el libro en el que sólo leí el título: Leonora– escrita por Elena Poniatowska. En el viaje de vuelta a casa empecé a leer el libro y quedé inmediatamente atrapada con la historia”

 

Escribiendo en “Pájaros de la cabeza” (Pagina 12, 27.05.12) la artista argentina Viviana Blanco invoca a Elena Poniatowska, la escritora y periodista que es la Vice-Presidenta de Interlitq: “Entre todos los libros que tenía me faltaba uno de mis preferidos: Max Ernst. Empecé entonces a buscarlo por los talleres de mis amigos, pero en lugar de Ernst me encontré con la biografía de una de sus amantes –así me dijo mi amiga mientras extendía el libro en el que sólo leí el título: Leonora– escrita por Elena Poniatowska. En el viaje de vuelta a casa empecé a leer el libro y quedé inmediatamente atrapada con la historia.”

Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “Mired in Trials and Transitions” (Arnab Bhattacharya, The Calcutta Telegraph, 16.05.12), a review of “Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey” by Padma Desai: “Writing about oneself is never easy. Writing itself is an act of framing which involves choosing some aspects of a subject and rejecting others. The framing of the subject and the issue of what to select and what not to is fiercely contested from within. It is then that the concept of the ‘subject’ emerges in its two different forms — as someone who thinks for, and writes by, herself, and as someone who is being thought about. These two different approaches coalesce and contrast with each other, bringing forth, as Julia Kristeva would say, a unique ‘sujet en procès’”

Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “Mired in Trials and Transitions” (Arnab Bhattacharya, The Calcutta Telegraph, 16.05.12), a review of: Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey by Padma Desai: “Writing about oneself is never easy. Writing itself is an act of framing which involves choosing some aspects of a subject and rejecting others. The framing of the subject and the issue of what to select and what not to is fiercely contested from within. It is then that the concept of the ‘subject’ emerges in its two different forms — as someone who thinks for, and writes by, herself, and as someone who is being thought about. These two different approaches coalesce and contrast with each other, bringing forth, as Julia Kristeva would say, a unique ‘sujet en procès’.”

 

Ileene Smith, executive director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and who previously acquired the Nabokov scholarship of Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, acquired on Monday (New York Observer, Kat Stoeffel, 04.04.12) a biography of Blanche Knopf, wife of Alfred A. Knopf, and former director and vice-president of the publishing house, written by Laura Claridge

Ileene Smith, executive director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and who previously acquired the Nabokov scholarship of Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, acquired on Monday (New York Observer, Kat Stoeffel, 04.04.12) a biography of Blanche Knopf, wife of Alfred A. Knopf, and former director and vice-president of the publishing house, written by Laura Claridge.

“In the few articles written about her, Blanche is credited with luring the European giants like Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and André Gide (as well as the Americans like John Updike and H.L. Mencken) who established the house’s literary credentials.”

 

Reviewing, in “The Washington Post” (14.10.11), “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel, Elaine Showalter, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, writes, “Gabriel is writing a new genre of biography. Historians have established the vogue for history from below, analyzing events in terms of the perspectives of ordinary people, rather than the theories and actions of the great and powerful. But ‘Love and Capital’ is biography from below — telling the life and career of Karl Marx from the perspective of his wife and children and putting the history of Marxism in the contexts of a family history. The revelations and contradictions are fascinating”

Reviewing, in The Washington Post (14.10.11), “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution”, Elaine Showalter, the American literary critic, feminist and writer on cultural and social issues, one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, the Avalon Foundation Professor Emerita at Princeton University, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, writes that, ”Gabriel is writing a new genre of biography. Historians have established the vogue for history from below, analyzing events in terms of the perspectives of ordinary people, rather than the theories and actions of the great and powerful. But ‘Love and Capital’ is biography from below — telling the life and career of Karl Marx from the perspective of his wife and children and putting the history of Marxism in the contexts of a family history. The revelations and contradictions are fascinating”.

“The Broken Tower”, a biopic about the poet Hart Crane, based on the 2000 biography of Crane by Paul Mariani, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is the subject of an article published in “Boston Globe”, January 8th, 2012

“The Broken Tower”, a biopic about the poet Hart Crane, directed by James Franco, and based on the 2000 biography of Crane by Paul Mariani, the American poet and a Professor of English at Boston University, whose volumes of poetry include “Salvage Operations: New and Selected Poems” , “The Great Wheel”, “Deaths & Transfigurations”,  whose biographies include “Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell”  and “Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life”, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is the subject of an article published in Boston Globe, January 8th, 2012.