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Rima Praspaliauskiene

@begoniavasa.bsky.social

Anthropologist, Historian, Writer. Author: “Enveloped Lives: Caring & Relating in Lithuanian Health Care” (2022, Cornell UP);

61 Followers  |  191 Following  |  12 Posts  |  Joined: 02.01.2024  |  1.3893

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Thank you for compiling the Granta pack!

28.07.2025 03:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Biking for writing How cycling helped me finish graduate school

Biking for writing
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#writewhatyoulike #bikingandwriting

09.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interview with Agata Szczeszak-Brewer I'm going to write what I like

On writing in between academic and creative nonfiction genres, an interview with Agatha Brewer, the author of the award winning
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland and
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
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25.06.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Author Ocean Vuong on 'the shared bond of survival' and his new novel Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

The story of a tender relationship between Hai, Labas and Grazina, refugees from Vietnam and Lithuania.
Ocean Vuong: “Both Hai and Grazina are debris ejected from two horrifying geopolitical ruptures, but they are not trash”
#theemperorofgladness #oceanvuong
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20.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amerikonka/Tarybukė - Vilnius Review What did we know about democracy? We fought for it. When Soviet tanks roared on Vilnius streets in 1990 and 1991, we were the ones who tried to understand why our predecessors didn’t resist in 1940. W...

My essay in Vilnius Review
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#vilniusreview #belonging

03.06.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Differential Force - Pacifica Literary Review

Beautiful essay about one adolescence: summer, bike, and a boy ripe with desire to harm a girl.
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10.05.2025 22:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Thank you @fernandogros.com 🙏

19.04.2025 01:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Write What You Like | Writing Formation | Substack A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

" I always want the writing to carry the thinking, both the narrative and the scholarly story." An interview with the wonderful writer and anthropologist Angela Garcia. Writewhatyoulike is celebrating its first anniversary. @angleangarcia.bsky.social
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02.04.2025 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Write What You Like A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

Greg Pierotti: You can produce good work and have a tortured relationship to writing.

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06.03.2025 02:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Write What You Like A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

writewhatyoulike.substack.com/p/82775883-c...

06.03.2025 02:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interview with Anitra Grisales Editing as a dialogic process

Editing as a dialogic process: Interview with Anitra Grisales

By Writing Formation

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05.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Once there was life…

07.12.2024 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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