Thanks to Ramunė Jonaitienė for this review in Tėviškės Žiburiai, the Lithuanian-Canadian weekly newspaper. Among the phrases I’m really grateful for is her description of my tone as “calm.” Ačiū, TŽ.
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New Review in Lithuanian-Canadian Weekly
20 Sep 2012 at 20:18
Julija Šukys
Archives, Biography, Canada, Catholicism, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Feminism, France, Friendship, Jerusalem, Journeys, Language and Multilingualism, Letters, Libraries, Life-writing, Lithuania, Memoir, Mothering, Ona Šimaitė, Paris, Translation, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
This is Who-Man: On Writing, Play, and Fun
19 Jan 2012 at 04:22
Julija Šukys
Academia, Algeria, Archives, Biography, Catholicism, Children, Christianity, Countdown to Publication, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Eastern Europe, Editing, Epistolophilia, Grad School, Journeys, Libraries, Lithuania, Mothering, Ona Šimaitė, Paris, Research, Residencies and Fellowships, Russia, Saints, SheWrites, Siberia, Silence is Death, Tahar Djaout, Uncategorized, Writing
This is Who-Man. My son and I invented him over breakfast this morning. Who-Man is a superhero whose arch-enemy is a many-eyed monster called “Crime.” Who-Man wears a bumpy suit (as you can see in Sebastian’s rendition of him above). The suit can shoot fire, but our hero rarely has to use this weapon. He [...]
CNF Conversations: Daiva Markelis
09 Aug 2011 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
Academia, Addiction, Autobiography, Catholicism, Children, Christianity, CNF Conversations, Conferences and Symposia, Creative Nonfiction, Daiva Markelis, Domesticity, Eastern Europe, Editing, Exile, Friendship, Language and Multilingualism, Lithuania, Louise DeSalvo, Memoir, Mothering, Publishing, Siberia, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life. University of Chicago Press, 2010. * Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb [...]
Life-blood: Mary Gordon
13 Oct 2010 at 10:29
Julija Šukys
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Mary Gordon, The Shadow Man: A Daughter’s Search for her Father (Bloomsbury, 1997 [1996]). I read this book on the recommendation of a colleague who thought it could be useful to my work. She was right: I found that it spoke to me on many levels. I hadn’t expected to have so much in common [...]
