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🖤 How did I get so lucky? 🍥Pick it up at a store near you to hear his story and vision. @pythiaz 👏🏻 👏🏻#berlin #germany #dubai #architecture #sculpture #artistsoninstagram #doersanddreamers #architect #台湾 #wu #creativity #干杯 #bravo #没有蝴蝶 #orchids

🥚💠 When I first read Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” short story in college, it made me realize I wanted to be a short story writer. Before this I had naïvely considered short stories something writers did between novels, and some people still do hold this opinion—I just read such a statement in a Guardian article about Karen Russell’s otherworldly collection ‘Vampires in the Lemon Grove’. The skill to write a successful short story, a short story with heart, is enormous; it requires patience and exactness. A novel, I dare say, even as a reader, can be more forgiving. Returning to this collection with ten years more experience and education, I only savor it more. This is good because sometimes I fear returning to a cherished book, like meeting a lost friend or love—it may disappoint. “There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment. Or else, sooner or later, it doesn’t.” #margaretatwood #bluebeardsegg #shortstories #amreading #bookshelf #bookstagram #atwood #blue #abudhabi #uae #afternoontea #fairytail #bluebeard #feminism #feminist #bookstoread #karenrussell #vampiresinthelemongrove #speculativefiction #horror #realism 🥚💠

中途阻雨 ☔️Mishu doesn’t like to walk in the rain ☔️ As my girl Emily Dickinson wrote, “The Sunshine threw his Hat away—“ 🌨🌨 #dubai #uae #dogsofinstagram #emilydickinson #poetry #americanpoetry #rainy #tangledupinwu #blue #walking con @pythiaz

#amreading about the witch-slut-feminist trifecta...from Baba Yaga to Yamauba to granny magic to every woman who has been called a slut to the “witch of Agnesi” & every feminist in between! 🌺 “For centuries, the word ‘witch’ has been used to punish women & to police female sexuality. Now, ‘slut’ has become the damning epithet that is de rigueur...The same sexist narratives that suggest a woman’s worth is in her sexual desirability suggest a man’s worth is in his strength...To Bri Luna being a witch means: ‘The power to boldly and unapologetically embrace nature, heal yourself, and heal your community...’” #kristenjsollée #bookshelf #americanwomen #equality #compassion #witch #witchesofinstagram #taiwanesetea #bookworm #witchesslutsfeminists #feminist #feminism #stregheria #poetrycommunity #巫婆 #🧙‍♀️ #thecolorblue #femaleempowerment #historyfacts #mothernature #tea #flowers #earth #rituals #poetry #rhymes 🌷🍃

🍃Early bird. Mornings have become my favorite time of day (I only wish they lasted all day!), the glory of ritual and rotation: one morning reading, the next writing, the next exercising, round and round, each activity speaking and influencing the other. A book recommended by the fabulous short story writer Karen Russell, Ghostly Matters, argues that to study social life one must confront the ghostly aspects of it—the lingerings of slavery during the Reconstruction Period, the desaparecido of Argentina, et cetera—and that “haunting can be used to describe the screaming presence of that which appears not to be present.” Gordon calls on literature and interdisciplinary approaches to explore hauntings, she cites books like Beloved. Rituals, I say, are the pathway to happiness and achieving what we want with this life. #amreading #bookshelf #ghostlymatters #haunting #averyfgordon #karenrussell #literature #sociology #hauntings #beloved #tonimorrison #history #literature #abudhabi #uae #starbucks #earlybird #rituals #discipline #healthymind #healthybody #healthyheart #morningwoman #earlybird #witchywoman

🎉✍🏻 Special weekend! Happy to share that the short story Amna Alharmoodi & I co-wrote “Transit عبر الحياة" won 2nd place in the Gulf Capital ADMAF Creativity Award for Literature for 2019! Thank you to H.E. Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan and H.E. Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo for the acknowledgements and award. We look forward to seeing the story in print someday soon. #adoptedhome ❤️🇦🇪 The Creativity Award in the Literature category is given every four years, and we are grateful to be part of this opportunity this year. 🌷 #abudhabi #uae #myabudhabi #writersofinstagram #shortstories #dubai #emirates #admaf #arts #language #emiratespalace #visituae #poetrycommunity #thegulf #emirati #american #womensupportingwomen #internationalwomensday #literature

New #poem in March’s @postscriptmag ...generated and revised after a workshop with poet Jill Magi. Link in their bio.🔹🔷🔹 #poetrycommunity #library #uae #abudhabi #librariesofinstagram #books #poetsofinstagram #jillmagi #jamesjebusashannon #myabudhabi

“Beautiful dreamer, you’re the size of what you see. The sky is the size of the sky, and the sun is just the sun. But a tree is the size of the flame you hold in your fingers... You walk to the absolute corner, where the roof of the sky meets the limit of the eye...” from Paul Hoover’s poem inspired by Fernando Pessoa via The Best American Poetry of 2018 🖤 #treetop #blue #dubai #wu #uae #poetry #paulhoover #americanpoetry #cats #台湾人和美国人 🍤🍤🍤

New #poem “venetian princess of dubai“ in Wanderlust Journal (you can read on their site) . . . . #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #dubai #venice #expats #traveling #venezia #italy #samanthaneugebauer #citylife #travelbloggers #wanderlust #wanderlustjournal #writersofinstagram #uae #abudhabi #dubaimarina #dubailife #dubai🇦🇪 #poesia #诗

Since the fall, I have had the opportunity to write for a great publication, Singapore Unbound, which exposes English-language readers to new Asian literature and voices, among other things. Even though I visited Singapore a few times, I never imagined I’d have the chance to be part of such a great publication. I’m excited to share my online review of The Night Tiger, which came out this month. Do yourself a favor—read the review (link in bio) and pick up this novel! “As Ji Lin’s story unfolds in this bygone Kinta Valley, we wheel around questions still resonant today: what is the separation between man and beast, and how do we escape the violent man-beasts of our lives? These beasts appear in many forms in The Night Tiger—colonist, husband, lover, childhood friend, stepfather, pimp, and weretiger. The true mystery of the novel lies not only in its supernatural plot of tigers who may become men and men who may become tigers, but also in how one may spot these beasts and how one may contain them.” #bookreview #thenighttiger #yangszechoo #samanthaneugebauer #singapore #malaysia #literature #asianwriters #feminism #womenempowerment #magicalrealism #newliterature #bookshelf #bookstagram #singaporean #visitsingapore #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #history #fiction #feminist #tigers #menandwomen #singaporeunbound ✨✨

Joy! Joy! Joy! For 8 years, like a firefly, I have followed Maria Popova’s light, and waited for her to finally publish a book. The writer of the popular blog, Brainpickings, which explores topics through science and the arts, Popova is eternally one of my choices for that game “if I could have dinner with five people...” and now, her book has been published. Popova is also the host of Universe in Verse, an annual celebration of science through poetry. “Figuring explores the complexity of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of historical figures across 4 centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler...exploring the nuances of a larger truth—not relativism...out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? Does genius suffice for happiness, does distinction, does love?” 🎊😁 #figuring #mariapopova #brainpickings #amreading #bookshelf #abudhabi #uae #americanliterature #poetry #science #pennalumni #renissancewoman #orbit

Such a joy to spend time with old friends! Audrey and I have known each other since I was a student in NYC, and she was one of my first friends when I moved to the UAE. Cheers to all the mamas celebrating Dr. Alta tonight! Real friendships, our chosen family, full of understanding and kindness, are one of the most important things to me. Honestly, nothing beats being in room with inspiring, well-educated, kind, independent, & ambitious women from all over the world. 💙 #uae #abudhabi #fourseasons #girlfriends #secretrooms #womenempoweringwomen #bechdeltest #womentalkingaboutmorethanjustmenandourbodies !

“If you can’t imagine an otherwise or an elsewhere, you are living in hell.” #averyfgordon #haunting ...thanks for all the elsewheres and otherwises, #harukimurakami #karenrussell #kellylink #samanthahunt #georgesaunders etc. #flywheel & #amreading 🚴🏻‍♀️📚☕️#tomandserge #dubai #uae #booklife #bookshelf #blindwillowsleepingwoman #bookstagram #latteart #solitude 🖤#weekendvibes

No mug is ever safe. ☕️🐯 #babytiger #favola #fable #catsofinstagram #meow #abudhabi #uae #coffee #cozy 🥳 @pythiaz ... oh and check out that Jane Austen mug, xiexie @trishypie :))

Check out our latest episode where we discuss non-fiction by Andrew Bertania titled “The Offering”; you can find Slush Pile on all your favorite podcast apps. 🎧🎧✍🏻 #slushpile #editors #podcast #podcasting #nyc #philly #abudhabi #uae #writersofinstagram #nonfiction #writingcommunity #theoffering #literature #literarypodcast #podcastersofinstagram

Songwriting and poetry workshop in class today with Peter and Brendan Mayer. ✍🏻✨ “A mistake we make [when writing] is to think everything must be profound when we start.” - #petermayer #jimmybuffett #mynyuad #poetrycommunity #songwriting #nyu #writingcommunity #abudhabi #uae #poetsofinstagram #nashville #tennessee #music #firstyearstudents #universitylife

Winter weekends in the Dhabs🌷”May you always have the best of all possible things and even things that are impossible.” - #maevebinchy #echoes #alreemisland #citygirls #skyline #abudhabi #uae #healthyrecipes #fleur #circleoffriends #winter #uae #wishes #irishliterature

L 🖤 V E — I was reading Auden & Teasdale & Eluard, but feel this one captures something special for the day too! I am not above the follies of holidays like today nor do I snicker at love poetry in its many incantations. Happy Valentine’s, friends, from a sometimes Romantic(ism) and lover of nature and especially, flowers. 🌺 From the poet, “I wrote ‘Hon…’ a few years ago, probably during the summer of 2014, towards the end of my marriage. It was born out of that place I imagine we all sometimes find ourselves in—where the love we may have with another becomes clouded over, becomes hidden and hard to see. We want for both our loved one and ourselves to take the hurt and anger and sorrow and pain and the want and the worthlessness—all that we dress our hearts in—and see through all that to the love that assuredly is breathing between the two, hoping it will be what can return us both to ourselves.” #anismojgani #valentinesday2019 #galentines #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #amreading #abudhabi #lovepoems #thunderstorms #bookshelf #uae #imperfectthunder 🌬

🎈🥢🎉新年快乐！Homemade hot pot for Lunar New Year at casa di Wu! 🎉🥢🎈#cooking #chinesenewyear #hotpot #dubai #uae #新年快乐 #chinesefood #healthyfood #taiwan #taiwanandusa 🖤🖤 with @pythiaz & @daakiya

Brava, Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros for winning the PEN/Nabokov Award for international literature! Cisneros was born in 1954 in Chicago, and made her literary debut in 1980 with a poetry chapbook called "Bad Boys." 😎💥 “As a girl, she dreamed about having a silent home, just to herself, the way other women dreamed of their weddings. Instead of collecting lace and linen for her trousseau, the young woman buys old things from the thrift stores on grimy Milwaukee Avenue for her future house-of-her-own—faded quilts, cracked vases, chipped saucers, lamps in need of love...She doesn’t want to write a book that a reader won’t understand and would feel ashamed for not understanding...She thinks people who are busy working for a living deserve beautiful little stories, because they don’t have much time and are often tired.” #sandracisneros #amreading #americanclassic #mexicanamerican #usa #literature #bookshelf #uae #abudhabi #coffee #thehouseonmangostreet #chicago #bookstagram #nabokov #readinglife

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