Nov 12, 2018
My Obsession with Wartime Yugoslav Music
A fascinating video about the “Turbo-folk” genre in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, which starts off as a description of the style and ends up as a discussion of the horrors of that awful time.
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My Obsession with Wartime Yugoslav Music
A fascinating video about the “Turbo-folk” genre in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, which starts off as a description of the style and ends up as a discussion of the horrors of that awful time.
CNN: Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide, sentenced to life in prison.
I wanna mention my mom to the UN ... Assuming they look through these tags. She lost her mother at 18. She left her brother and dying father in a warring country to give birth to me and my sister in a safe environment. I know it was a very difficult time adjusting to a completely different culture while becoming a parent as your country falls to ruins and those closest to you are in mortal danger for years on end. Her brother died when he turned 50 to top all of it off. She has very little family left in Serbia. Even if she's got her share if flaws she did her very best to raise us and keep our family working through several uprootings, from country to country. She's one of the strongest people I know, if not the strongest.
I have the absolute honour of presenting you with a Q&A I did with Sara Nović, author of the amazing Girl at War which came out last month. I had the pleasure of reading it in advance and was blown away by it, so being given the chance to ask Nović herself some questions was great.
ARBiH DshKa position, with large anti-aircraft sights.
As the JNA recruited from all over Yugoslavia, it is actually possible to distinguish which part the members hailed from by their hats and overall appearance. These Slovenian infantry, for example, are clean-shaven, fit to the point of looking malnourished, and wear the M82 forage cap with the distinctive M81 camouflage bedroll, originally made for Yugoslavian parachute regiments.
"Notes on a War-Torn Childhood" by Sara Nović
Recommended by Justin Taylor
Issue No. 79
I’m ten the night my house explodes. The sound isn’t a sound, just a vibration so strong it rattles my chest. I come-to face down on the floor, impossibly unharmed, and pull myself on my elbows across the carpet and into the hallway. A section of the house—the part where my parents’ bedroom is supposed to be—is missing. I run. In the street, the pavement is warped from the treads of tanks that have plowed through the neighborhood. I spot a trench, jump down, and follow its rutted path toward the city center.
Read the rest of the story at electricliterature.com.
About the Author
Sara has lived in the States and Croatia and lives now in New York City. She studied fiction and literary translation in the MFA at Columbia University, where she is currently a teaching fellow instructing a human rights-themed essay writing course. Her work has appeared in the Minnesota Review, LA Review of Books, Blunderbuss, and Circumference. She is also the founding editor of the Deaf rights and education blog Redeafined. She is at work on her first novel, which will be published by Random House in 2015.
About the Guest Editor
Justin Taylor is the author of The Gospel of Anarchy and Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever. His next book, Flings, is forthcoming from Harper Collins in July 2014. He teaches at Columbia University, N.Y.U., and the Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and at http://www.justindtaylor.net/.
About Electric Literature
Electric Literature is an independent publisher working to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction, accompanied by a Single Sentence Animation. Single Sentence Animations are creative collaborations: the author chooses a favorite sentence and we commission an artist to interpret it. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter (where you can win weekly prizes), Facebook, and Twitter, and find previous Electric Literature picks in the Recommended Reading archives.
“Notes on a War-Torn Childhood” © Copyright Sara Nović 2013.
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