VIDEO JANET TODD LOCKDOWN
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VIDEO POL KOUTSAKIS LOCKDOWN FROM PERTH
POL KOUTSAKIS VIDEO FROM PERTH HERE: LINK
Author of Athenian Blues and Baby Blue.
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VIDEO LEONARDO PADURA LOCKDOWN FROM HAVANA
Here is Leonardo Padura in lockdown speaking from his home in Havana: LINK
ERNESTO MALLO LOCKDOWN Q&A from BADALONA, SPAIN
- Do you have any local stories of kindness or good deeds that you can share?
In Spain, and the rest of Europe you can sense a strong anti-migrant feeling more or less explicit. Almost all the paramedics, cleaning and support personnel are Latin Americans. Dominicans, Mexicans, Argentinians and so on. Working very long hours, for a miserable salary, always a smile behind the mask, always attentive and efficient.
PAUL THOMAS LOCKDOWN in NEW ZEALAND Q & A
Which historical writer would you find it difficult to be self-isolating with and why?
This is a tough one but I can’t go past Norman Mailer. In an Observer piece from the early 1980s, reproduced in his collection The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis wrote that “for some reason or other, Mailer spent the years between 1950 and 1980 in a tireless quest for a fistfight.” Amis described a 700-page oral biography of Mailer as “strewn with vicious confrontations, drunken couplings, ostentatious suicide bids, cruel human manipulations, incessant violence – and incessant cant.” After a few days of that, I think I’d take my chances with COVID-19.
SERGIO BIZZIO LOCKDOWN Q&A
How are these surreal days influencing your normal writing process?
Well, I don't write anything. What can be done other than not writing? I have been locked up for thirty days and the only thing I have been able to do in that time is dedicate myself a little to my garden, discard books from my library, and read. Not much more than that.
TONINO BENACQUISTA LOCKDOWN Q&A
Is there a local dish or comfort food that you are eating more regularly at the moment, to get you through these turbulent times?
A dish, no. But from time to time a little scotch doesn't hurt…