On Virginia Woolf, Orell Füssli’s The Bookshop, and beginnings
“There’s something interesting about a story that circles—however tightly, however loosely. This is the story that (like most others) is anchored from the start of its telling in a place and an action. It’s an action that is borne of friction: in the world, between characters, or internally.” Libby O’Loghlin on diving deep, and surfacing at the beginning.
Making Tracks
Liam Klenk compiles a calendar of literary goings-on in Zürich and beyond this Winter.
The Voyage Out: Mr. Pinocchio
In the first instalment of The Voyage Out, Susan Platt ventures into the magical realm of Mr. Pinocchio: a children’s toyshop born from the mind of a multilingual story-lover.
Notes from the Unexpected: Piercing and tattoos à la Rue de Framboise
D.B. Miller’s Notes from the Unexpected opens a small door into Rue de Framboise, a tattoo and piercing establishment with a difference.
Notes from the Unexpected: Les Millionnaires
D.B. Miller finds hidden gems when she talks with the artists behind Les Millionnaires jewellers, in Zürich’s well-heeled Old Town.
Eulogy for Orell Füssli The Bookshop
Long-time Zürich resident, writer and entrepreneur Susan Platt pays her respects to a much-loved and soon-to-be-departed Zürich institution: Orell Füssli The Bookshop.
Notes from the Unexpected: Zürich’s one and only lake speaks up
D.B. Miller hands over the helm to Zürich’s ever-changing heart—the Zürisee—and displaces Point-Of-View, in her latest instalment of Notes from the Unexpected.
Gallery: Displacement II
And experience the many nuances and moods of that great body of water in the Zürisee—in (gasp!) Gallery II.
In Conversation: Samuel Schwarz
Zürich writer, producer and director Samuel Schwarz on the feature film and Alternate Reality Games of Polder, the largest transmedia storytelling project to come out of Switzerland;
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