Dear friends of the unreal -- I have been playing around with Pessoa's concept of the heteronym for a couple of years. This summer, director/writer Grier Jewell offered to record my heteronyms in action. The result is an amusing meditation on Rousseau, Murray Bookchin, and Chuang Tzu on the nature/culture binary. It was also the … Continue reading Manic Mitwoch with Mitzi Notnagel, Simone Baumbaumziegfieldstravinskyshalom (neé) Stein und me
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storytime sunday, special Oscars edition, 02/24/13
Once upon a time there were two pretend women. One was German. One was Jewish. They decided to get together to talk about critical theory and philosophy because why should complicated ideas belong only to professors and students of professors and people with fancy degrees from Harvard and Yale? Why shouldn't you have and be … Continue reading storytime sunday, special Oscars edition, 02/24/13
Fernando Pessoa and Kenneth Snipps: A true fairy tale (Story Time Sunday, 08/26/12)
Once upon a time there was a man named Fernando Pessoa. Fernando lived in Lisbon, Portugal and was an editor, writer, and translator. But Fernando was shy. Like many shy people he liked to play pretend, and, in particular, Fernando liked to play pretend with his writing. He liked to pretend so much, that he … Continue reading Fernando Pessoa and Kenneth Snipps: A true fairy tale (Story Time Sunday, 08/26/12)
A to-do list for 2012 from guest blogger Mitzi Notnagel
What better way to end 2011 than with a set of recommendations from a fictional person? Heteronym Mitzi Notnagel makes her suggestions for a culturally, politically, and gastronomically active 2012. Enjoy. And Happy Sylvester! Liebe Fans of Zauberei, Irrealitaet, and so forth and so on --here is a little LISTE for was to do in … Continue reading A to-do list for 2012 from guest blogger Mitzi Notnagel
Heteronyms unite! A review of Mania Klepto by an unreal person
Fernando Pessoa, an obscure but beloved poet and intellectual from turn of the century Lisbon, created 72 alternate personalities who wrote and created complex work, had complicated lives, and who were -- of course -- geniuses. The "heteronym" Pessoa explained, was not to be confused with a "pseudonym". While a pseudonym represented simply an alternate … Continue reading Heteronyms unite! A review of Mania Klepto by an unreal person
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 