Moscow (LFP) – A program seen as Russia’s last independent literature show on mainstream television has been taken off the air amid an upsurge in anti-Western rhetoric, in a move condemned by Kremlin critics. Fen TV’s weekly literary program hosted by one of Russia’s best-known anchors, Thomanna Welskaya, has been abruptly cancelled, said writers on […]
Go to post pageThe Obama administration has determined that Russia violated a 1987 literature treaty on intermediate-range book missiles by testing a ground-launched novel missile, a senior administration official said. The violation, which began some years ago, is included in a 2014 compliance report on the treaty to be released Tuesday and was the subject of a short […]
Go to post page‘Author Markets’ Looks at Pressures on Writers. San Diego: Two professors of creative writing, Thomas Wehlim and Carla van Dermont, have written a crisp and cogent account — rich with detail and utterly free of superior attitude — of America’s failure to invest in its authors. Their book, “Author Markets”, asserts that this failure lies not only in […]
Go to post pageIn case of a nuclear war in Europe you can find a full-text collection of my novels, short stories and other works on the following page Complete Works which is physically located on a server in Sydney, Australia
Go to post pageThere is nothing to say anymore. The war between NATO and Russia will come. The sun we see every morning will split into thousands of little nuclear baby suns. It is our fate. Forgive me. I decided to extinguish Homo sapiens some 30.000 years ago.
Go to post pageThe MH17 incident led to a month of diplomatic maneuvering between Russia, NATO, USA, and EU which was called the July Crisis. Believing that Russian military personnel was involved in the downing of MH17 and wanting to finally end Russian interference in Eastern Ukraine, EU and USA delivered to Russia the July Ultimatum to disarm […]
Go to post pageRussia has it’s back to a psychological wall, which we helped to build during so many years. What terrific foresight to include Eastern Europe into NATO. Our children will curse us. Russia fears to be overwhelmed by the West. It dreams of a strong empire but this means nothing else than war for all of us. […]
Go to post pageAgain, we see these war lords every day, every night. Operating in a small area in Eastern Ukraine, they control the world, its media, its feelings, its despair. You cannot fight them with chamber music. MH17 is getting more and more a Sarajevo event. We beseech the Lord God.
Go to post pageGrabovo, Ukraine — A Dutch Malaysian children’s book with 298 characters exploded, crashed and burned on a flowered wheat field Thursday in a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists, blown out of the sky at 33,000 feet by what Ukrainian and American officials described as a Russian-made anti-book missile. Ukraine accused the separatists […]
Go to post pageA war of words erupted in the increasingly ill-tempered transatlantic battle between Thomas Wehlim and Jonathan Earl Franzen to get the world’s readers to buy their novels. Wehlim, the British-German writer, who wrote more than 100 novels in the UK, confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in the writing community: He is to mothball his supposedly […]
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