My interview to Orhan Pamuk for euronews now on YouTube

Turkey has place in a Europe of “liberté, egalité, and fraternité” says Pamuk - Literature : news, interview | euronews

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Available also in 7 other languages (the original one is in French). If you are interested, just ask.

Come da oggetto :)

Well, I might be a bit optimistic... Just a bit.
Anyway, tonight, at 9.45, I'll be on air on euronews interviewing Mr Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer, under trial these days for blasphemy. More details in the interview, which is being repeated all over the weekend (I think, I have no idea about the actual timetable).
And if you should miss it, don't worry: it will soon be on line on euronews' website. Enjoy!

Update

During the night it's going to be on air more or less every hour at .45.

Timetable for tomorrow: 05.45, 8.15, 12.45, 16.15, 21.15. And it's already on the website :)

I cannot say I knew JG Ballard in depth. I can't even say I liked Crash: well, I read it 30 years after it was published and I found it boring.
But his short stories... I wish I could write something half as visionary.

I cannot but regret never meeting him in person. Rest in peace, James.

I used to be the kind of guy
Who'd never let you look inside
I'd smile when I was crying
I had nothing but a life to loose
Thought I had a lot to proof
In my life, there's no denying

Goodbye to all my yesterdays
Goodbye, so long, I'm on my way

I've had enough of cryin'
Bleedin', sweatin', dyin'
Hear me when I say
Gonna live my life everyday
I'm gonna touch the sky
And I spread these wings and fly
I ain't here to play
I'm gonna live my life everyday

Change, everybody's feeling strange
Never gonna be the same
Makes you wonder how the world keeps turning
Life, learning how to live my life
Learning how to pick my fights
Take my shots while I'm still burning

Goodbye to all those rainy nights
Goodbye, so long, I'm moving on

I've had enough of cryin'
Bleedin', sweatin', dyin'
Hear me when I say
Gonna live my life everyday
I'm gonna touch the sky
And I spread these wings and fly
I ain't here to play
I'm gonna live my life everyday

Hit the gas, take the wheel
I've just made myself a deal
There ain't nothing gonna get in my way
Everyday

Goodbye, so long, I'm moving on

I've had enough of cryin'
Bleedin', sweatin', dyin'
Hear me when I say
Gonna live my life everyday
I'm gonna touch the sky
And I spread these wings and fly
I ain't here to play
I'm gonna live my life everyday

I, oh I, oh I, I'm gonna live my life everyday
I (gonna touch the sky), oh I (spread these wings and fly), oh I
I'm gonna live my life everyday

(Bon Jovi, Everyday)

If you had googled "Turkey" this morning on the English news, you would have found on the first page this article, which I posted yesterday on GroundReport (and the day before on my blog Turkish Diary). It appeared on The Huffington Post (which I don't know, but it doesn't matter, as long as it appears so high on Google).

The title is: What Israel Can Learn From Turkey (the original one was: Israel and Turkey: so different, yet so similar, yet so different... but it was changed by the editors, and I find the new one actually better, although I didn't want to give such a "radical" judgement)

Here is a report by my friend Alberto and me about women literature. It was shot in Frankfurt, at the Book Fair, and two of the writers we interviewed are Turkish.

I have just uploaded the photos I took in Kas and Kastellorizo. Yesterday, I uploaded the ones I took in South Nicosia. Just go and have a look at them!

In my last post about travelling, I forgot to mention Milan. I'll be there just before and after Frankfurt, since I booked my flight from there.
So, I'm arriving on Oct. 13, leaving the next day, and then I'll be back on the 19th till the 24th.

So, if anyone is passing by...

Hello, world. I'm still alive, although I haven't been around for a while. The funny thing, is that a blog is for telling things that happen, but when too many things happen you don't have the time to update your blog.

Anyway.

Sorry if I missed something. I hope it was nothing really important. On the other hand, I'm a lot on Facebook and on Plaxo these days, so I follow all that happens there, including people who have a LJ and feed it into Plaxo.

On Thursday I'll be flying to Rome. Just a short holiday, or a long weekend, as you like. I'll be back in Lyon on Monday. I have just discovered (thanks to Facebook, again) that in those days there will be the Travel Literature Festival. I think I'll have a look at it, since I don't have much to do except for meeting friends.

This is a travelling period. More than usual, actually. In October I will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And then I think I'll have to choose between two SF festivals: the Utopiales, in Nantes, and Science + Fiction, in Trieste. This year I'm more in favour of Trieste, but I must say I'm quite tempted by the Utopiales because of the presence of William Gibson.  If I can avoid to choose, I'll be disgustingly happy.

All this just to say that right now I'm doing exactly the life I have always wanted to do, and I would be a liar if I wouldn't say I'm perfectly happy. Nothing to do with the sudden bursts of happiness, followed by depressing periods, I've had in the last years. It's a quiet happiness, a sort of balance I have found. Oh, I know all too well how this balance is just temporary, I'm not exactly a balanced person, but right now I'm just enjoying it, like a sort of holiday. It seems I didn't need to go on holiday from myself, but from the myself I'm not.

On GroundReport: http://tinyurl.com/6me2bh