400 years of women's frustrations

In conversation today we wondered and meandered over human dynamics and how they have come to be. Especially within families - how we perceive and are in turn perceived, what bonds and binds us, what stories are told, embellished, and retold? 

some women diarists featured in the new anthology

Sarah Gristwood's Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries, is a captivating anthology of women's dominant emotion in the past 400 years - a recurring theme in their journals written between 1599 and 2015. 

This book is a collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women’s experience has changed over the years and how it hasn’t.

Organized around the calendar year with several selections for each day - this book is a fascinating record of how women were thinking, feeling and reacting to historical events.

Stauney, Sadie, and Sarah discuss the book

The variety of entries, the process of women writing in diaries and how they were preserved, the importance of daily records, how it's changing in the digital age, and what Sarah hopes people will take away from her latest release.

This book is an enthralling retrospective of well-known diarists and more obscure ones. The rich mix of incredibly voices often echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today. 

wonder | wander | world thoroughly recommend this fun and fabulous read. Read it! Read it! Read it! 

Pinoy lit

October is Filipino American History Month.

Hollywood News Source is celebrating this annual occasion with book recommendations ranging from literary fiction, poetry collection, romance, YA and MG titles written by Filipino-American authors.

You can read and share these books all year-round. 

on the opening of the city's first permanent, public library building in 1971

fiction

non-fiction

poetry

In 1971 over 300 young Filipino American people gathered in Seattle for the first Young Filipino People's Far West Convention [FWC]. For the next 11 years youth participants met at the FWCs to discuss issues important to them.

From identity to the anti-martial law movement to farmworkers' rights to Ethnic Studies. The FWCs are considered the beginnings of the Filipino American Movement and the impetus for Filipino American Studies.

For FAHM 2021, FANHS encourages commemorating the FWC and 50 years of youth empowerment and organizing throughout Filipino American history.

wwworld week pick

In case you have not come across this wonder | wonder | world is all too happy to present our gem for this week. . . .WORDS without BORDERS.

Perfect timing for our current incarcerated times!

Forbes names WWB one of the ten best ways to spend your quarantine. Read about it here.

Image: Gunvor Rasmussen, detail, from Maria Parr,
"Raur gir dyna si ein klem [Raur Gives His Blanket a Hug],"
in Trøysteboka: Nynorske forteljingar
(Skald, 2011). Courtesy of the publisher

our fave subversive | Dr. Seuss

Today on the birth anniversary of Dr. Seuss - Theodore "Ted" Geisel - we celebrate all way of how being YOUer than you is such a grand gift.

Portrait of "Dr. Seuss" [Ted Geisel] by Everett Raymond Kinstler

Dreamer or cynic? Grandfather or grinch? It seems that Dr. Seuss was all of these things and more. A complex, talented and passionate man who struggled to remain hopeful in spite of the "dissemination of stupidity" he saw all around him.

James Welch : path finder to the center of our hearts

Today wonder | wander | world pays tribute in honor of Native American author James Welch, considered a founder of the Native American Renaissance. 

His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013. 

In 1997 Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. 

A Google Doodle by artist Sophie Daio was created in honor of what would have been his 76th birthday, watching over the Google home page in a drawing that evokes both his Native American heritage and his award-winning literary career. 

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin! 

new reco : Lit Hub

On their ABOUT page: 

Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. There is more great literary content online than ever before, but it is scattered, easily lost—with the help of its editorial partners, 

World War II Dutch Resistance Fighters

Lit Hub is a site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books. Each day - alongside original content and exclusive excerpts - Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits.

support literary translation

In honor of International Translation Day, here are some things you can do to support translation every day.

It is celebrated every year on September 30, the feast of St. Jerome - the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators. 

St. Jerome in his study by Domenico Ghirlandaio

The celebrations have been promoted by FIT (the International Federation of Translators) ever since it was set up in 1953.