“Queer Exiles” with Ben Robbins From Christopher Isherwood to Djuna Barnes, some of the most prolific queer writers of the 20th century wrote in exile. Ben Robbins joins me to explain how and why queer writers connected with each other in exile and how (in)voluntary movement shaped their stories. Ben shares some surprising encounters from the archives and paints a picture of some of the locations of queer exile: Berlin, Tangier and Capri.   References: Networked Narratives: Queer Exile Literature 1900-1969 Funded by the Austrian Science Fund/FWF (Project DOI: 10.55776/P35199)   https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/networkednarratives/ Ben Robbins’ “‘Marriages ought to be secret’: Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative” JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Dec. 2023, pp. 100–122, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v5i1.173. Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers http://queerexilelit.uibk.ac.at/ Robbins, Ben, and Ralph J. Poole. "Introduction: Queer Ruralisms." AmLit – American Literatures 4.2 (2024): 4-21. Ben Robbins’ Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen (University of Virginia Press 2024) https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5855/ Queer Second Cities Maria Sulimma Ben Robbins’ “Christopher Isherwood in Exile”  https://www.huntington.org/verso/christopher-isherwood-exile Harry Ransom Center Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) Oscar Wilde W. Somerset Maugham E.F. Benson John Ellingham Brooks Romaine Brooks John Ellerman Robert McAlmon Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood Natalie Barney Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin Stephen Spender’s The Temple Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies W.H. Auden Patricia Highsmith Allen Ginsberg Claude McKay Thornton Wilder Ben Robbins. "Space, Sexuality, and Thornton Wilder's Villa Rhabani." Thornton Wilder Journal 5:1, November 2024, pp. 99-119. DOI: 10.5325/thorntonwilderj.5.1.0099  https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/thornton-wilder/article-abstract/5/1/99/392187/Space-Sexuality-and-Thornton-Wilder-s-Villa?redirectedFrom=fulltext Open access: https://ulb-dok.uibk.ac.at/urn/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-40689 William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch Alfred Chester’s Looking for Genet: Literary Essays and Reviews Susan Sontag Gore Vidal Henry James Truman Capote   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      How does Ben define ‘exile’? How is this similar to and different from ‘expat’? -      How does exile relate to class status and financial means? -      Why are queer networks so important in this context? -      What does Ben say about exile and (involuntary) movement affecting narrative form? -      How do you find out where you can safely travel?

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Screenshot showing hardcover version of Djuna Barnes novel Nightwood is $1288.69 on Amazon

Whoa, this book in general has been hard to get back in the day, but didn’t realize the value of #djunabarnes today. And yes, this is on Amazon and the hardcover is a little out of my budget. But glad I can get an affordable version as a first read/listen.

A Stopover at Hangover Hall A handful of hatefuls let it rip on the moors of Devon, the perfect windswept setting for antagonism and angst. Welcome to the salon…

A handful of hatefuls let it rip on the moors of Devon, the perfect windswept setting for antagonism and angst. Welcome to the salon… #djunabarnes #devon #peggyguggenheim #nightwood #tseliot #ottolinemorrell #themodernsalonniere

Madame Vitriol’s Time Machine Meet a complicated writer whose overly-sensitive psyche was deemed “as complex and winding as a Daedalian labyrinth.” Welcome to the salon…

Meet a complicated writer whose overly-sensitive psyche was deemed “as complex and winding as a Daedalian labyrinth.” Welcome to the salon… #djunabarnes #paris #nyc #patchinplace #themodernsalonniere shorturl.at/9NBgO

“There’s No Place Like Home!”: A Tour of New York City through Djuna Barnes’s Spatial Stories in Early Journalism and Poetry ABSTRACT. This article delves into Djuna Barnes’s early journalism and poetry, focusing on how her portrayals of New York City during the 1910s shaped her evolution from an emerging journalist to a pr...

Excited to announce my article on Djuna Barnes is out now in Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)! It explores how her early journalism and poetry construct a modernist view of NYC

Thanks to the editors Paul Thifault, Nancy Sweet & Donna Black.
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lectures per celebrar l'Orgull 🏳️‍🌈
#bielmesquida #VioletteLeduc #AnaïsNin
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#Verlaine #sebastiaportell

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“I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”

✒️ #DjunaBarnes, American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer (Nightwood), #DOTD 18 June 1982. #Literature

Dimecres 18, a les 20 h, club de lectura
EL BOSC DE LA NIT de Djuna Barnes
a l'Espai Mallorca de Barcelona

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Djuna Barnes, on her birthday June 12  2025 revision Djuna Barnes is Promethean in her rebellion, a thief of the fire of the gods, a figure out of Milton or Blake, wielding her Lacanian vision into character and the human con…

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Today is Modernist author Djuna Barnes’ birthday. Here’s a clip of our music video for ‘Djuna’, made in cooperation w/ the amazing Jon Macy, whose graphic novel, ‘Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes’ is a must-read. Happy birthday to the formidable Ms. Barnes. #djunabarnes #musicvideo

Djuna Barnes va néixer un 12 de juny de fa 133 anys!
podeu descobrir-la llegint
𝑬𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒔𝒄 𝒅𝒆 𝒍𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒕
amb traducció de Laia Malo i pròleg de #JeanetteWinterson

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#elboscdelanit #narrativeslabreu

Djuna Barnes American writer Djuna Barnes was BOTD in 1892. Born in a log cabin in Storm King Mountain in Orange County, New York, her bohemian family espoused polygamy and free love, moving in his mistress to …

American writer Djuna Barnes, best known for her novel “Nightwood”, a Gothic portrait of Paris’ lesbian underworld, was BOTD in 1892. #djunabarnes #bornonthisday #supergays

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
born on this day, 1892

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"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."

✒ #DjunaBarnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright, was #BOTD 12 June 1892. #Literature #Theatre

The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems by Djuna Barnes

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Excited to pick up our copy of Jon Macy’s fantastic graphic novel, “Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes” from White Whale Books. Fab read & very highly recommended. 🙂✌️✨📖

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20
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#bookchallenge

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Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes — Street Noise Books

The book is available from Street Noise Books. #djunabarnes. #jonmacy #graphicnovel #streetnoisebooks

We recently collaborated w/ Jon Macy to celebrate the release of his graphic novel, ‘Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes’. Here’s the #musicvideo for our song, ‘Djuna’, released in 2016, updated/remixed in 2024, the video contains images from Macy’s fab book. #pittsburghmusic #djunabarnes

Literarischer #12Juni

„Einfach glücklich sein genügt nicht, du musst auch wissen wie.“

#DjunaBarnes Geburt 1892