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litandroses · 2 years
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Book Recommendations for when you’re feeling low
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake.
It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best.
Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. A med school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.
Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgement, and her younger brother's recent stint in rehab, but she's unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma's dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn't really trying to be a hero—but somehow she and her father set in motion just the kind of miracle the town needs.
Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo by Sandra Cisneros
A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully told by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a beautiful dual-language edition.
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafes of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But her months of befriending panhandling artists in the subway, sleeping on crowded attic floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents, falling out of touch and out of mind--until a letter unearthed in a closet brings Corina's days in Paris back with breathtaking immediacy.
Told with intimacy and searing tenderness, this tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship is Cisneros at her vintage best, in a beautiful dual-language edition.
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.
Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to "Gord," her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). "You’re a small thing," Grandma writes to Gord, "and you must learn to fight."
As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv’s exasperating, wise and irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way—painfully, joyously, ferociously—to love and fight to the end, on her own terms.
Marikit and the Ocean of Stars by Caris Avendaño Cruz Pub date: October 18, 2022
A magical middle grade debut, inspired by Filipino folklore, about a ten-year-old girl who embarks on a quest in the world of gods and spirits to save her and her family from a sinister shadow god. Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and When You Trap a Tiger.
Marikit is used to wearing recycled clothes. Her mother, the best seamstress in the barrio, has become an expert at making do ever since Marikit’s father and brother were lost at sea. But for her tenth birthday, all Marikit wants is something new. So when her mother gifts her a patchwork dress stitched together with leftover scraps from her workshop, Marikit vows to never wear it. That is, until the eve of her birthday, when shadow creatures creep into their home, attempt to take Marikit away, and upend the very life she knew.
When she’s swept away from the human world, Marikit discovers that her dress is a map, one lovingly crafted to lead her to safety in the magical lands of the Engkantos. She trudges through the enchanted lands of mythical creatures, making friends out of monsters and challenging gods. With the help of her friends, including an exuberant firefly and a cursed boy, Marikit journeys through the land of the Engkantos to find the key to saving her family, all without being eaten alive.
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So Evil My Love
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There are times watching Ray Milland’s attempts at more serious roles I wish they had been played by Cary Grant, though in the case of Lewis Allen’s SO EVIL MY LOVE (1948, Criterion Channel, TCM, archive.org), it would have required Grant to go against the types to which he increasingly confined himself. When Milland’s con artist dabbles in villainy, he’s quite good, though Grant would have been more charming. When he has to play scenes with an ulterior motive, however, he mugs outrageously (I shudder to think of the effect on Western civilization had he ever co-starred with Joan Crawford). I don’t think Grant would have been that obvious. At least he couldn’t have fallen into that singsong line delivery Milland keeps using to indicate deep emotion. But even he couldn’t have pulled off the sudden character change required in the film’s last act, when things seem to be going dreadfully soft for a moment. Milland is a turn-of-the-century artist and art thief who spots an opportunity when missionary’s widow Ann Todd nurses him through a bout with malaria during an ocean voyage from Jamaica to London. He puts the moves on her to win free lodging, but when he discovers she has a rich, unhappily married childhood friend (Geraldine Fitzgerald), he sees a lucrative opportunity for blackmail. Since this is “gaslight noir” (film noir set in the Victorian era), you know things aren’t going to go well. It’s going to be all shadows and duplicity. The surprise is that the seemingly noble Todd takes to chicanery like a natural. The script plants the seeds of that in the first shot, when she stands on the ship in the middle of a storm because she finds it exhilarating. This is one glacial blonde with a hot, seething inner life. She’s basically a combination of the two female archetypes in film noir, the Madonna and the whore. Todd is quite wonderful, pulling on her deeper, husky tones to create a woman whose life is a series of regrets. And her innate intelligence plays up the film’s interrogation of female roles in a stifling patriarchal society. There’s also strong work from Fitzgerald as a woman driven to alcoholism by her husband’s coldness, Martita Hunt as his steely mother, Leo G. Carroll as a philosophical private detective and Hugh Griffith as the coroner leading an inquest into matters you’ll have to discover for yourself.
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byneddiedingo · 5 months
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Ray Milland and Ann Todd in So Evil My Love (Lewis Allen, 1948)
Cast: Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll, Raymond Huntley, Raymond Lovell, Martita Hunt, Moira Lister, Roderick Lovell, Muriel Aked. Screenplay: Ronald Millar, Leonard Spiegelgass, based on a novel by Joseph Shearing. Cinematography: Mutz Greenbaum. Production design: Thomas N. Morahan. Film editing: Vera Campbell. Music: William Alwyn. 
So Evil My Love needs a better actress than the starchy Ann Todd to make its central premise work, that a respectable Victorian widow of an Anglican missionary would fall so hard for a handsome cad that she'd do anything from larceny to murder for him. It could also have used a more charismatic cad than Ray Milland in the role. We meet Olivia Harwood (Todd) on a ship returning to England from Jamaica, where she has buried her husband. When the ship's doctor asks her to help nurse some malaria patients on board, she agrees -- a little reluctantly, which is perhaps a sign that she's not as sweetly complaisant as she might be. One of the patients is traveling under the name Mark Bellis (Milland), which may not be his real name: He's an artist who makes his living by stealing valuable paintings and forging Rembrandts. A spark is lit between them, although we don't really see it because the actors have so little chemistry, and when they get back to London, Bellis makes his way to her doorstep. She owns a small house and lets out rooms, one of which he takes, though under the disapproving eye of her other tenant, the ostentatiously proper Miss Shoebridge (Muriel Aked). When Olivia allows Bellis to paint her, in an off-the-shoulder peasant blouse, she relaxes her defenses and passion blossoms -- or what passes for it in the screenplay if not on the screen. Meanwhile, Olivia makes contact with an old school friend, Susan Courtney (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who is unhappily married to the wealthy and domineering Henry Courtney (Raymond Huntley). Susan has confessed her unhappiness, and her love for another man, Sir John Curle (Roderick Lovell), in letters to Olivia. When the affair between Bellis and Olivia develops, he finds the letter and sees the possibility of blackmailing Courtney, who is in line for a peerage that would be derailed by scandal. Under Bellis's spell, Olivia gets deeper and deeper into a plot that turns lethal. There's potential for real heat in the story, but miscast leads and a talky script undo it. 
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A Writer’s Lament {WIP}
Joelle Ormar was a writer, supposedly. She certainly spent a lot of her time writing, too much of it probably. Given how much she published at this point [see: nothing] many would say she was wasting her time. Hell, she sometimes admitted it might be a fool's endeavor to keep writing as much as she did. But she kept writing, for whatever fucking reason. "Still tapping away I see," Her best friend peered over the screen of her laptop from the other side of the table. Willow was a darker skinned woman, of Mexican descent, who was a programmer by day, a prolific artist by night. Jo envied the amount of money a good artist who didn't mind drawing things of a more... carnal bent could make, but she would lose to a preschooler in an art contest. Writing was a far less profitable trade, until it wasn't. "What's the story today?"  The rattling of the keyboard was Jo's only response, the only sound in the quiet cafe that they had decided to meet in. "See, you agree to meet me here at Boscoe's but then we do this the entire time. I talk, you don't, and eventually we leave. I love you, girl, but I can't carry the entire conversation," Willow sighed deeply, absentmindedly twirling her straw around the inside of her glass.  "It's about this vampire whose made another vampire and is teaching them through assholery how to be a good vampire," Jo explained, her fingers pausing momentarily as she considered the next phrase.  "Sounds interesting, do you think you'll stick with this one?"  "I don't like the implication there,"  "Just saying, Jo. This is what, the fifth story you've been writing like a maniac over the last couple months? That's only counting the one's that make it to the page, others you'll rave to me about at 3am and then never actually put to paper,"  "I've got a feeling about this one, Martita's a great, magnificent bitch and I love to hate her,"  "I can read through what you've got, see if I like it-"  "It's not ready yet!  "I'm not going to judge, I've shown you my pre-sketches,"  "It's different," Jo narrowed her eyes at Willow, defensively pulling her laptop into her lap. "You're actually good at art," Jo added the last part as a whisper.  Willow kicked Jo under the table. "You are good at writing, I've seen your stuff. You just need to actually submit it to a publisher or hell, independently publish on Amazon or something," "Shut up, I'll get there when I'm satisfied with what I've wrote, I wanna make a good impression with the publisher," "Have you even chosen a publisher to try with?" "Yeah, totally," "I'll help you look tomorrow," ______ Thank you for taking a little time to read this very early draft of the first scene, mostly trying to get characters down. It’s eventually gonna be a bit of a sad, angsty story where this struggling writer is thinking of ending things and then gets taken on a Christmas Carol-esque journey in dreams by the characters she’s written whom try to convince her that life is worth living. Is it a bit trite? Yes, totally. I think it’s interesting, and perhaps it’s a bit of a vent piece too. Mental illness, wooo! I welcome any criticism, constructive preferably but it’s the internet so what can you do.
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Hmm idk if I know them well enough to recommend but I can tell you what I do know about them
Like Water for Chocolate: Its a Mexican book which also has a movie that I haven't watched, but it's 3 sisters and its custom that the youngest doesn't marry and stays home to take care of her aging parents but in this case the youngest daughter loves this one guy and I think he ends up marrying one of her older sisters. Then I think the girl puts her sadness into baking and it goes well for her I guess (I'm not 100%) and I guess guess there's recipes at the start of each chapter
Wuthering Heights: I really liked the movie but I couldn't get through the book bc I don't understand a lot of it, it was written in the 1800s
The Cher book is just her telling about her first everything. That books basically just for fun
Martita I remember you: a woman is going through letters and stuff from some time she spent in Paris with two friends she met there, they're all Latinas and now they're grown and gone their separate ways so she's reminiscing
But aww that sounds so cute and I can't wait to see what you write with that inspo
I went to the library cause I gotta get a book for school and I haven't been to the library in so long and they redid the one in our downtown so it's really nice and I had to renew my library card and it's kinda customized cause I got this cute one with a fairy drawing. I might go practice driving today since it's going to rain tomorrow and tonight I'm gonna watch an old movie with my mom
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Omg those books sound good 😢 if I remember I might pick one up on my next trip to the bookstore!!
Omg that’s cute I would go to my local library and get a card and stuff but the germs would freak me out 😢
But I hope you get a chance to practice driving!!
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gwendolynlerman · 2 years
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Thank you for tagging me, @quatregats!
Alias/name: Marta; my nickname in real life is Martita, which I used to hate but now tolerate.
Birthday: July 9
Zodiac sign: Cancer
Height: 170 cm/5’5”
Hobbies: reading, watching TV shows and movies, learning languages
Favorite color: lilac
Favorite book: The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
Last song you listened to: “Impossible” by James Arthur
Last movie or show you’ve watched: The Good Doctor 5x05
Recent reads: I’m currently reading The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński for uni and I’m actually enjoying it a lot.
Inspiration: the Internet (?)
Story behind URL: I used to be obsessed with Gwendolyn Shepherd from the Ruby Red trilogy and with actor Logan Lerman.
Fun fact about me: I’m a vegetarian and lactose intolerant, which means that I have to do some research before going out to eat with friends or family. When I have to eat at work (I work at a burger restaurant which thankfully also has a cafeteria), I can only eat an omelette or a Spanish omelette sandwich 😬
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I tag @fluencylevelfrench, @jackredfieldwasmyjacob, @meichenxi, @pawprintedpages, and @tealingual.
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aaknopf · 3 years
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In the “Other Countries” section of her now classic collection My Wicked Wicked Ways, Sandra Cisneros pens lines from Venice, Paris, Trieste, the old market in Antibes, the Greek island of Hydra in pouring rain, and Sarajevo, as below.
Peaches—Six in a Tin Bowl, Sarajevo
If peaches had arms surely they would hold one another in their peach sleep. And if peaches had feet it is sure they would nudge one another with their soft peachy feet. And if peaches could they would sleep with their dimpled head on the other’s each to each. Like you and me. And sleep and sleep.
More on this book and author:
Learn more about My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros, and follow her on Instagram (@officialsandracisneros).
Browse other books by Sandra Cisneros, including her forthcoming Martita, I Remember You / Martita te recuerdo, to be published in a dual-language edition translated by Liliana Valenzuela.
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svankmajerbaby · 2 years
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fuck it, midcentury argentinean ant-man
Santiago Quiroga comes out of the Posadas jail in Misiones in the spring of 1968, determined to reconnect with his eleven year old daughter Martita, whom he hasnt seen for the last four years since he was apprehended for a complex bank heist where he took the blame in place of his best friends and partners in crime: David "El Armenio" Diradourian, an eccentric plumber and electrician and a wiz on several sorts of handyman jobs; Simón Gavensky, engineer, owner of a hardware store and friend of Elena's (Santi's wife) family, kind of neurotic but extremely loyal; and Luis Aranda, an ex-bank employee and ex-convict too, Santi's best friend who picks him up from jail and tries to help him find job.
meanwhile, Horacio de Silva, a prestigious scientist with a bad temper and a worse reputation after the last military coup that, due to his ties with peronist researchers and scientists, destroyed a good amount of his research, is now working alongside his estranged daughter, Esperanza de Silva, and her fiancé, Lautaro Jauretche, a powerful and rich businessman who helped the family regain their prestige and academic respect, and who now is anxious to marry Esperanza, who he doesnt love, to get access to the personal files of the de Silva family -and evidence of the urban myth of the incredible Hombre Hormiga, a rumor in the scientific community of a masked vigilante finding and taking revenge on the increasingly abusive power of the authorities that run the country
the stories of Esperanza and Horacio de Silva, and Santiago Quiroga become one when, giving in to help his friends with one last heist, Santi founds a mysterious "B-movie sci fi costume" in the de Silva house that, when put on, somehow reduces him to the size on an ant. he learns that the myths of the superhero and his companion, la Avispa, were true; and that now Horacio needs someone new to take the mantle and defend his research from the external forces that want to use it for "military matters".
and Santi may just be the right person for the job
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redchaospersona · 2 years
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Marta!! I'm at work and need to be entertained too so I have a few questions for the ask games :
Apples and caramel (but for books since I know you already answered this one ) and 7, 10, 11, 16, 29 and 48 ! (I know it's a lot but I wanna know more about you and these are interesting!) 💕
HI GAËLLE MY LOVE UWUWUWU
Caramel - what's your comfort film or films? (but for books)
okay this one is kinda harder but i think i have them. when i look for comfort in books i tend to go t othe ones that make me forget my troubles by laughing and there's this eduardo mendoza series with absurd comedy that i LOVE bc doesn't matter the time that has passed it always makes me laugh. in spanish the name of the books are: el misterio de la cripta embrujada, el laberinto de las aceitunas, la aventura del tocador de señoras, el enredo de la bolsa o la vida and el secreto de la modelo extraviada
Apples - Do you enjoy reading?
absolutely. lately i don't have much time for reading but i have a couple of books i wanna buy and read. i've been into mysteries and psychological thriller this lasts months
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7. what is your favorite word?
mmmmm this one is hard but i’m gonna go with petricor. the smell of the rain after some time of drought.
10. do you have any nicknames?
YES. people usually call me martita which is a diminutive of my name marta i find it very cute uwu
11. what is your favorite flower?
sunflowers, daisies, tulips, chrysanthemum, roses, forget-me-nots (last gift i did to my friend was a necklace with this flower i love her very much)  and well i like flowers a lot in general so 
16. who was your first crush?
one of my colleges in school, he was the “bad boy” but he treated me good eventho the rest of the class (mostly girls bc they were jealous) kinda bullied me. i wonder where he is right now but probably not doing well bc he was into smoking maria and all of that and kinda drifted away of the good path
29. what is your dream job?
ART CONSERVATOR. I LOVE ART. I LOVE PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES AND GOD I WISH I COULD SPEND MY DAYS SURROUNDED BY ART
48. what is your favorite memory?
mmmmmmmmmmmmm i think it’s one i have from when i was little and we we’re living in our first house and we had a big terrace and my dad built me a wood swing and i would spend my days there bc i LOVED it so much and i love him so much
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jusdekiwi · 3 years
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@pduwd you're probably the best person ive meet this year (even if its online but i do intent to come see you like i said i would im just poor) and you inspire me so much and gave confidence i needed it and you're a great person and friend 💙 te quiero martita
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cricketcat9 · 4 years
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We have a brand new baby, Melody Susanna. The young couple came from Colombia with literally nothing, she heavily pregnant. The expats and the town set them up. From my friend, the photographer: “Two Quechua midwifes delivered, Martita and her mother, Luzmila, Patty assisted, I photographed the event and am from the United States originally and Liz and Jonathan are Colombian so three different languages were used and Quechua traditions were observed at the in home delivery”. 
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pduwd · 4 years
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Thanks to @morshiberna @driesen-demaury and @fehmyn for tagging me☺️❤❤
1. Name: Marta (yeah it's not Martha as many of you thougth 😂😂)
2. Nicknames: I have 2: Martita (it's like little Marta) and many people call me that because I'm so small physically...I hate that nickname😕 and my friends call me Martha, with the "h" because I'm always watching series and films in original language (mostly english) so they're like "you're half english so you're Martha now"😂❤
3. Zodiac: taurus
4. height: 5’0”
5. Languages: Spanish, English and French a lil bit
6. Nationality: Spanish
7. Favourite season: Autumn
8. Favourite flower: blue roses (they don't exist naturally but I have one and it's so freaking beautiful) and sunflowers
9. Favourite scent: coconut☺️
10. Favourite color: black and blue
11. Favourite animal: hedgehogs and foxes.
12. Favourite fictional character(s): omg this is gonna be hard...Will Herondale, Jem Carstairs, Ty Blackthorn, Magnus Bane, Isabelle Lightwood, Jace Herondale, Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, Alex Fierro, Hearthstone, Isak Valtersen, Eliott Demaury, Lulu Lallemant, Robbe, Sander Driesen, Even Bech Næsheim, Milan Hendrick, Magnus Chase, Jasper Jordan, Stiles Stilinski, Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Hermione Granger...and I'm sure I'm forgetting people and I'll feel so sad for this 😂💔
13. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: hot chocolate
14. Average sleep hours: If I'm lucky 6, but 4-5h
15. Dog or cat person: omg I love both so much so idk...animal person(?)
16. Number of blankets you sleep with: right now 3
17. Dream trip: Iceland or Amsterdam
18. Blog established: I think I created it in 2018 but I started posting in 2019
19. Followers: more than I deserve because I'm boring guys😂❤
20. Random fact: Maybe I'm a bit obsessed with the colour blue so I usually but stupid stuff only because it's blue, I only ate blue candies when I was a kid...and my birthday cakes are also blue💙
I'm tagging @voldemortimaginarynose96 @in-elk-universe-voor-altijd @wtfocklvr @someone-whos-nice @well-who-needs-angels-anyway @faih15 @peaceoutofthepieces @comehome-tome @dreamy-slytherin @glorious-technicolor @it-is-what-it-is-i-guess @tarlos-nicotino @depppie @lost-in-wtfockk @theonlysharyn @nocluewhatiamdoinghere @batmanstolemypony (feel free to ignore babes❤)
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nyfacurrent · 5 years
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Conversations | Changing the World With Your Art, While  Maintaining a Work-Life Balance
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Find out how to stay focused and keep your mind, art, and heart inspired with a few tips from the IAP Interview Archives.
Below you’ll find top tips and advice for immigrant artists and creatives collected from conversations featured in IAP Newsletters across the years. Whether you’re telling your personal story, looking for a residency, or balancing a 9-to-5 job with your artistic practice, read on to learn more about the fine art of wearing multiple hats in the art world. For the full conversations, click on the interviewees' names below. 
NYFA: What advice would you give to artists who are looking to share their personal story in the hopes of inspiring large social change but who do not know where to start?
Ambika Samarthya-Howard: I think the hardest part of sharing your personal story is that when people reject it, it feels like they are rejecting you. This is true if you are a writer or a video producer, or a painter. Art is always hard because it’s a reflection of your identity in so many ways, but it’s even harder when it’s a personal story that’s already fraught with vulnerability, like stories of trauma.
My advice is to first step back and ask yourself if you want/need to tell this story. I’ve often found telling my story to be key to personal growth and very cathartic and so whether it’s accepted in a film festival or publication, I was happy to tell it. Second, do you want to put this story out there? Artists can have personal projects that they don’t share and I think it’s worth asking, especially with sensitive subject matters, if it makes sense to put this out into the world. How would a public critique or rude comment on YouTube make you feel? Lastly, connecting to community and other artists can often make this process easier and help through the journey of not only producing the work, but also the much harder process of sharing it and finding the right channels for distribution.
Martita Abril: I found it was critical to be comfortable with myself and my own style and to embrace and engage my fellow immigrant artists like the community embraced me.
Techung: Well, immigrant artists naturally face more challenges, but they should never give up on their art and instead work toward finding possibilities. There are a lot of kind people out there—organizations such as NYFA and others who will support, give feedback, and guidance—but the drive should come from the artists themselves. It takes time and energy to succeed and one must not feel shy or discouraged to ask for help. Keep your mind, heart, and art inspired.
Angélica Dass: For me, the role of an artist is to start a conversation. Because, in the end, I really believe that I can’t change the world; the only person that I can change is myself. But if we talk more about these issues that you feel are not right outside (and as an artist you are able to put these inflections in the making of art), maybe other people can decide they want to change themselves. So that is why I see the role of the artist as someone that uses something (photography, archive, images, etc.) to generate empathy and propose a discussion that can have a direct impact on our collective future. 
I always have the same advice for my students and it is: “Be honest!” It looks like something very basic, but really, be honest! You know it when you are doing something that is not right, not coherent, in a work of art. This is something that I miss in the art world, sometimes. Maybe we can be too critical and too political in a piece, but the truth is that we are just showing one side. My other advice is to give back. Give back to the community that you’re working with and try to be coherent and respectful of them.   
Sébastien Sanz de Santamaría: When artists are applying for opportunities, they should ask these four questions: What do I need to advance my creative practice? Does this opportunity (grant, residency, workshop, etc.) provide the resources and means for me to advance my practice? Do I have all the requirements necessary to apply? Have I reviewed all the details of the program entirely? I think to be successful you must select the right opportunity at the right time. After that, I think perseverance is very important. Normally, one successful experience takes you to the next one, in a process that is connected with your artwork.
Ronny Quevedo: If there is something you need help with, reach out to someone that can help you. We shouldn’t be ashamed of our unfamiliarity with something. For example, I didn’t know how to develop a budget for a very long time. Try not to hide what you think you are not good at, instead be more proactive about facing what challenges you.
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NYFA: What are your tips for balancing a job with an artistic practice?
Gisela Insuaste: I think of them [my job and artistic practice] as part of my identity as a human being (and engaged in activities that are important to me), and avoid thinking of these as separate, vying for my time and energy. I see them in collaboration.
Ideally, the administrative work connects, informs, or inspires my artistic practice and vice-versa, but most importantly, aligns with my values. Actually, that’s the case for all activities, relationships, etc. in my life. I’d like to say that once your values are aligned, then everything is perfect! But that’s not the case—it’s also about time management and prioritizing the work, making adjustments, always. Sometimes, administrative work will require more time, while a creative project takes back seat. Shifting gears for a 35-mile bike ride in the hills is just as important if your body and mind need to be outdoors.
A good practice for me is to take moments to play and socialize during intense work, either in the office or studio, with friends or colleagues. If need be, set parameters with people or spaces to manage time—decide what’s important to get the work done and surround yourself with what you think you’ll need. Assess where you’re at with your projects/personal well-being. Sleep, eat well. Go outdoors for a walk and get some Vitamin D!
Marco Antonio Castro: I have been active in the New York arts community since my arrival in 2005. I co-founded and curated MoD (Monitor Digital), the first Interactive Art Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico. We brokered partnerships in the public and private sector to give new audiences an access point to explore digital art and performances. From 2007 to 2013, I guided the vision, curatorial strategies, fundraising, and assessment for the annual festival, while tapping the diverse arts community that thrives in New York. MoD’s public programs, workshops, performances, and artists expanded the festival’s reach to ultimately serve as a pipeline for international artists to connect and collaborate across borders. The festival has helped me understand the process and care needed to reach new audiences and how to make a digital exhibition as inviting as possible without lowering the quality of the content. This has helped me in my practice to make sure I know how to talk about my projects in different ways, to make them understandable by different audiences.
Catherine Yu: For an art form so bound to structure and plot, remember with relief that life works differently from art. Life often goes off-script. For those who feel daunted by the unknown, allow me to quote the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “The future enters into us in this way in order to transform itself in us long before it happens.”
Leeza Ahmady: One of the skills I’ve managed to develop is to keep the insight that the art world has many parts and that each part plays an important role at the forefront of my mind. I see it as an ecology, a landscape. Because of this perspective, I’ve been able to include and engage with all spectrums of the art scene: the nonprofit and for-profit museums and galleries, academic institutions, art biennials and festivals, smaller arts organizations with similar missions, community organizations, and artistic collectives as well as auction houses and art fairs. I have achieved this by being conscious of each entity’s mission and by creating and envisioning programs that appeal and address the needs of all these varying operating sectors while keeping the empowerment and promotion of artists at the very top of ACAW’s priority. It’s all about making practical, conceptual use of what resources are already there and sharing the spotlight without being invasive of any one’s territory.
- Interview Conducted by Alicia Ehni, Program Officer at NYFA Learning
This interview is part of the ConEdison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter #120. Subscribe to this free monthly e-mail for artist’s features, opportunities, and events.
Images from Top: Angélica Dass, Yo Soy Somos, Courtesy the artist; Ronny Quevedo, no hay medio tempo: there is no halftime (detail), 2017, Queens Museum, Photo Credit: Hai Zhang
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Sandra Cisneros Conversations-on the Penthouse in Miami!: Notes!
From Dr Patrick ODougherty November 2021 Miami Book Fair
Modern and xOTHER RIVERS OF DESIRE
UNDERGROUND FIRE,
Penthouse setting
Ruth Behaur
Richard Blanco
Poetry wants to write poetry
Generous Sandra Cisneros is Martita I remember you
3 woman artists supporting each other and their dreams
80and 90s hollering creek
All of the stories
As if it were a peony
Slow travel too much
Uninterrupted block of time for writing
Mexico lacks money
Endure a lot the man who makes donuts
Cooperating together
Beautiful things
Martita
Book of poetry
Be contemplative
Nun friends down the street
Return to poetry
Poetry is the most sacred
Ouija board is writing a poem
Counted Poems
Talking schools
Ministry work
Baylor University
Scary places
Alabama
Baylor a Baptist University
Community
Poetry is of the spirit
Deep meditation and prayer spirit power
Open heart
Vulnerability
A lemon
A Trojan horse
Laugh
Cry
Think and write
Tenderness between the woman
Brutality
A range in her work looks at the not pretty
Linen background fell
Memories she wishes she could forget
Voice stories
Something real kite string
Truer than her memory
Writing to forget
67 years old this year
Taboos are the strongest
If you don’t write down it never happened
Acne
Paper a stack
Reese’s Peanut butter cups
Period
Bust period
Tampons And utter cups
Penmanship
A box on Valentine’s Day
Remember their smells
Beautiful people’s list
Hershey’s with Almonds
San Miguel Allende
Cheesy food
Live to write
Books are prison sentences
Sufi
Prison sentence
Mystic
Monk
Ayn Rand repudiates mysticism
Occult
Nonbelievers a day to believe
Dead are abandoned
See the spirits
Clean with sage
Light
Scared
A woman without shame
Compliments
Woman shame
Poor
House on :Mango street
Gender
Class
Interloper
Feminist girl
Trajectory
Ashamed
Juvenile
Loose poems
A judging person
Owning yourself and having no shame
Gettting over shame
We are in love
Cross the sexual lines in the book
Not a novella
Write a thriller novel
Want fiction
Stretch
A novella
Succinctness ofHouse in Mango
street
How did I give birth
Sandra and Jan
Emotionally tall
Bronchitis
Outside on the penthouse
Translated Woman
Broke many-rules
Small press
Editor needs an editor
Teachers and librarians
Red tailed hawk
Focus on the lineage of women
Intervene rationality
6th grade teacher
Sisters ofChristian Charity
Shy
Doing good
Flower drawing
Cat eye glasses
Drew out something she did well
Literary magazine editor
People who changed her life
Time is a gift
Write or it never happened
Lyric essay class
Define essay
Opera and singing
Music and musicians
Suite at Chautauqua
Libretto
Derick Berkeley compositions that will be in the opera
Vibrant speaking
art is about kids
Joyeous playful place
Good medicine art
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mystupidlovesongs · 7 years
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I want you to answer all 44 questions ❤️
1. Any scars? I have a really big scar in my forehead.
2. Self harmed? No, I have never done it. If any of you is struggling with it please, please talk to someone. I’m always open to talk.
3. Crush? Ugh, I have too many.
4. Kissed anyone? Yes, I have.
5. Coke or Pepsi? Diet coke.
6. Someone you hate? Donald Trump.
7. Best Friends? My twin sister.
8. Have you ever done alcohol or drugs? Alcohol.
9. What’s your dream job? Civil engineer.
10. Ever been in love? I’m not sure, to be honest.
11. Last time you cried? I’m sure I’ve cried today at some point.
12. Favorite color? Teal.
13. Height? 5′2 / 1,595m
14. Birthday? 05/18/1996
15. Eye color? Chocolate brown.
16. Hair color? It’s complicated.
17. What do you love? Traveling.
18. Obsession? Hockey.
19. If you had one wish, what would it be? Stop the wars.
20. Do you love someone? I love a lot of people.
21. Kiss or hug? Hug, actually.
22. Nicknames people call you? Doll and Martita.
23. Favorite song? ‘Tenerife sea’ by Ed Sheeran.
24. Favorite band? Simple Plan.
25. Worst thing that has ever happened to you? Ugh, I don’t know.
26. Best thing that has ever happened to you? Being surrounded by people who love me.
27. Something you would change about yourself? Be more constant.
28. Ever dated someone? Not really.
29. Worst mistake? Believe that people cared as much as I did.
30. Watch the movie or read the book? Read the book.
31. Ever had a heartbreak? Yes.
32. Favorite show? Suits.
33. Best day of your life? Too many to choose one.
34. Any talents? I’m talentless. 
35. Do you wish you could ever start over? No, I don’t.
36. Any bad habits? Not trying on a piece of clothing before buying it.
37. Ever had a near death experience? Living?
38. Someone I can tell anything to? My sister.
39. Ever lost a loved one? Sadly.
40. Do you believe in love? I believe that love is the strongest force in the universe.
41. Someone you hate/Dislike? How much time do you have?
42. Are you okay? I’ll survive.
43. Relationship status? Single and ready to mingle.
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WHAT: K Jacques Zenobie Wrap Around Leather Sandals WHERE: Los Angeles, California with friends , via Marta Martita’s Instagram WHEN: 24th April, 2016
PURCHASE: MATCHESFASHION
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