What do you think it is about the sea that works so well with queer stories and characters? I find it so much easier to write about daily relationships and boring things when they are split through I was doing what I often did with my short stories, which is trying to figure out how I could tell essentially a quite mundane story through this weird prism of being under the sea and something strange going on. I was also thinking about a novel by Lauren Groff called The Monsters of Templeton, which is about going back to your hometown, but also there’s a monster in the lake, and just the way those two extremely realistic, extremely not-real things rub up against each other. I think there’s a lot of that - like, Céline Sciamma in novels I’ve noticed recently. It was an idea which came predominantly from wanting to write about the sea, which I always want to do, being very aware of this sort of crossover with queer women’s fiction and the sea. And then I came to this, which had essentially been a short story idea I wanted to write as my treat for finishing a novel. Unsurprisingly enough, that was not the novel I actually ended up writing and publishing. That won’t mean much to you, but that was not a very long train. Most of the time when you sell a short story collection, which I did in 2018, will be like, “That’s cute, but do you have a novel?” So what originally happened, of course, was I did not have a novel, but I was like, “Sure, yes.” And then I wrote a pitch for a novel on a train between Clapham Junction and Balham.
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Humans spent thousands of years studying physics and astronomy, but they could not apply that knowledge to metalworkers until much later. SteelĪlthough metallurgy has been around for a long time, it was not understood scientifically until the 20th century. His investigation into the materials invented throughout history helps him explain how inventions shape society. To answer these questions, Miodownik started a project to find the materials that have made human civilization what it is today. How can something so small and thin cut someone so deeply? Why do some things bend while others break? Why do certain materials look and behave the way they do? Although the incident inspired him to learn more about materials, it also traumatized him. Mark Miodownik was stabbed by a razor when he was 13 years old. “Exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history. 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Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology, Iași, West University of Timișoara and “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia. Literature section is well represented by authors with affiliation to University of Bucharest, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, The “A. In the first volume of Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies (ISSN 2003-0924) we are happy to welcome ten articles and two book reviews on Romanian language, literature, culture and film, written either in English or Romanian, by academics from various established universities.
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