February 2018 - BookBlast® Official

Close Encounters of a European Kind 3:AM Magazine BookBlast® Archive

February 28, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

An early article from the BookBlast Archive, Close Encounters of a European Kind by Georgia de Chamberet for 3:AM Magazine first published in February 2007. After generations of slaughter on its soil, Europe found peace and […]

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Sparring with Hemingway Robert Ruark 1954-55 BookBlast® Estates

February 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

An article about sparring with Hemingway and the stamina required to be a writer fell out of Gael Elton Mayo’s copy of Robert Ruark’s Something of Value while rearranging the overfilled bookshelves in the hallway […]

Fireflies Luis Sagasti Review

February 8, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Fireflies by Luis Sagasti, translated by Fionn Petch “God, like fireflies, only shines in the darkness, wrote Schopenhauer.” – Fireflies (p. 71) Fireflies by Luis Sagasti is a brief, existential history of […]

Carolina Orloff Charco Press Interview

February 7, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Carolina Orloff, Charco Press Carolina Orloff, tell us a bit about yourself. Are (were) your parents great readers? My father owned and ran a large bookshop right in the centre of Buenos […]

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Fionn Petch Translator Interview

February 7, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Fionn Petch, translator Fionn Petch, tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up in Scotland but left at age sixteen and never really made it back. I lived in Mexico […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Brittany BookBlast® Estates

February 4, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This piece came out in April 1954. In the northwest of Spain, […]