Kasia Bartoszynska

Notes to Self, Emilie Pine

I spend probably too much time pondering the difference between personal essay and criticism and non-fiction and auto-theory, so there was something kind of pleasing about reading something that was so squarely in the category of personal essays. This is a person writing about her experiences. She writes about her father’s hospitalization in Greece asContinueContinue reading “Notes to Self, Emilie Pine”

Beauty Salon, Mario Bellatin

I read Beauty Salon, translated by Kurt Hollander, for the first time in 2015, on the recommendation of a friend, and was riveted by it. I don’t re-read things often, but I decidedly wanted to revisit this, and so I was very excited to hear that Deep Vellum was releasing a new translation, done byContinueContinue reading “Beauty Salon, Mario Bellatin”

Matrix: Resurrection

It seems appropriate to be starting with a movie review, given my recent realization that the old blog, which was intended to be a place for writing about books, ended up having lots of posts about movies. I didn’t really intend to watch the new Matrix movie, though I was slightly intrigued when I learnedContinueContinue reading “Matrix: Resurrection”

Culture Vulture makes a move

This is the new home of my blog, a continuation of an old blog that I started in 2006, when I was a graduate student. At the time, blogs were fairly popular, and I wanted to have one, but was fairly sure that writing about “my thoughts” would later prove embarrassing (plus, I was alreadyContinueContinue reading “Culture Vulture makes a move”