"Named Wadisuchus kassabi, the animal was 3.5–4 metres long with an elongated snout and large, sharp teeth, which it used to catch prey such as fish and turtles." www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-...

Just saw that the Brazilian edition of Blanchot's L'espace littéraire is super expensive at the secondhand bookstore, so I feel almost rich now.

Someone on letterboxd summarized Billy Wilder's Sabrina as "downbeat wistfulness undercutting the playact of romance until it reaches genuine sentiment" and I really like that.

Fortunately, no one asked "does poetry even matter?"

Amazing talk today at PUC Rio with Stephen Sexton, whose book If All the World and Love Were Young was released in Brazil last year as Se o Mundo e o Amor Fossem Jovens. It was translated to Portuguese by Ana Guadalupe. Sexton talked to Paulo Henriques Britto and Maria Cecilia Brandi.

Rio: Tracy K. Smith will be at our university (Uerj) next Tuesday, 6 pm :)

Yesterday, we listened to Jamaica Kincaid’s recording of the last paragraph of See Now Then while reading the Brazilian translation. It was the best way of finishing our discussion about the novel; those adverbs will keep haunting us...