Adaptation
Two Woolf readers talk about journeys of adaptation, growth and imagination, and the experience of having a foot in several cultural camps; and
Notes from the Unexpected: The floating venue with heart
In the next instalment of Notes from the Unexpected, D.B. Miller finds herself afloat amid lovers of theatre and art.
Making Tracks
Plus all the regular goings-on in Zürich and beyond in Making Tracks, with springlike shenanigans to inspire you to shed your winter coat.
Notes from the Unexpected: The voices of Radio LoRa
The latest chapter of D.B. Miller’s regular Notes from the Unexpected, this time on LoRa, a radio station that does not conform.
In Conversation: Olga Bushkova
“First is obsession, second is photography being just a tool.” Photographer Olga Bushkova talks about how photography took over from her former career in science and programming, and on looking for the normal.
A Fiction Workshop Experience
Meredith Suter-Wadley gives an overview of the Zurich Writers Workshop, held in May at the Volkshaus in Zurich. Meredith attended the fiction workshop run by Anne Korkeakivi. The weekend kicked off with a Friday evening reading at Orell Füssli’s English Book Store in Zurich. Anne Korkeakivi read from her novel An Unexpected Guest, and Chantal Panozzo, the non-fiction instructor, read from her collection of essays, Swiss Life: 30...
Notes from the Unexpected: Daniel Nufer and Pile of Books
“The first time I happened upon Pile of Books, a few months earlier, was just as disorienting. It beckoned like an Edward Hopper that had come to life and, were it not for the campy Come In, We’re Open! sign on the door, I could have been peering into a person’s private library. In some respects, I was.” D.B. Miller visits Daniel Nufer at Pile of Books in the next instalment of Notes from the Unexpected.
In Conversation: Stefano Massa
“I perceive something as a piece of art when it deeply intersects and influences the streaming forces shaping society.” The Woolf talks urban narratives and creative concepts with a designer, architect, producer and curator of content: Stefano Massa.
In Conversation: Sarah Nickerson
“I love talking to writers about their writing. I want to see how they write and what thoughts went behind the material I read. It gives you ideas for different approaches, and different eyes for your own manuscript.” The Woolf talks to Sarah Nickerson about her Zürich writers’ group.