The Life of Klim Samgin is perhaps the most dramatic, deep and fateful novel by Maxim Gorky. In 1980s Victor Titov made it into a film....
I‘ve always been surrounded by books, as you know. Since I came to England, I have amassed a darn good collection, too, which was occasionally but generously enriched by my mother. As a result, ...
Heaton Park – November 2009 – 12, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. A couple of weekends ago I visited Heaton Park. Heaton Hall, unfortunately, is now closed until Easter when it...
–Can She Actually Speak?– A few weeks ago I read a feature in the brand new Stylist magazine about Kate Moss. Half-way through the interview I read this phrase that left me… well, sp...
As you know now, I finally got to listen to Secret ‘s music much later than I should have done . About the same time I was already listening to Edith Piaf, and I first couldn’t believe my ...
I still vividly remember how a clip “I Love Boogie-Woogie” by the Russian beat band, Secret , was coming up on TV, and my mother was switching channels despite my protests. I was deeply sa...
Christmas Dress, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. As I’m writing this post, it is raining outside, and I’m elated that the winter season as we know it in the North West, with st...
Pablo Picasso, A Girl with a Book Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the songs of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without tryin...
Still image from Citizen Kane Great films can teach us more than what their makers plan while filming. The story quoted below can be found in Paul Arden’s book, and it amply demonstrates how far...
A long time ago I had a conversation with someone who was considering to be a man-of-letters. The person was meeting the difficult subject heads on. ‘It would be nice to write poetry‘, he ...