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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

Many thanks to those who have allowed me to speak; now I’ll do so   I’m actually not talking here under my own name You should perceive and conceive of Antoine Volodine as a collective author, a name that includes the writings, voices, and poems of many other authors You should think of my physical presence, in front of this microphone, as that of a delegate whose mandate is to represent the others, my colleagues unable to appear in front of you because they’re mentally distant, because they’re imprisoned, or because they’re dead You should accept my presence here as a spokesperson As a spokesperson of post-exoticism, which is to say an imaginary literature from elsewhere and headed elsewhere, a literature that insists upon its status as strange and estranged, that insists upon its singularity and refuses all affiliations to any specific and clearly identifiable national literature I’ll explain all this   First, I’d like to list some of the authors who I’ll be speaking for tonight Some have appeared inside texts under the name of Antoine Volodine; some have been characters therein, they have spoken as novelistic characters in their own name or in others’, under their colleagues’ names, or as bare and anonymous voices, as voices stripped of all non-collective identity Several of these men and women I’ll mention (since, among us, women are numerous and at the forefront), several of them also have a tangible existence as book authors They’ve authored and continue to author books published the usual way, or contributed to magazines that actually exist in the literary world that you know All these texts and all these male and female authors are tied to post-exoticism We constitute a writing community Here, tonight, when I say ‘I,’ that means ‘we,’ regardless of the words uttered So I’d like to list some of these essential authors: Ingrid Vogel, Yasar Tarchalski, Lutz Bassmann, Elli Kronauer, Vassilissa Lukaszczyk, Iakoub Khadjbakiro, Jean Vlassenko, Maria Samarkande, Manuela Draeger, Sonia Velasquez, Maria Schnittke, and Maria Schrag The list could be different and it could be much, much longer When I say ‘I’ in front

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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poetry

October 2013

Steam

Jon Stone

poetry

October 2013

Steam in the changing rooms, stripping off after the race, breathes like an engine. The air is filled up...

Prize Entry

April 2017

Hangnails, and Other Diseases

Giada Scodellaro

Prize Entry

April 2017

Benson’s Syndrome   Grapefruit. I have lost the word for it. Popillo? Popello? No, no. It escapes her, the...

Interview

October 2013

Interview with Chris Petit

Hannah Gregory

Interview

October 2013

Chris Petit likes driving. Most of his films, from his first Radio On (1979), to London Orbital (with Iain...

 

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