Mastodawn

"In #Marseille 1940: The Flight of #Literature, the #German #literary critic #UweWittstock traces the anguished itineraries of more than a dozen #refugee #writers and #artists and the efforts by a group of courageous #Americans—along with many anonymous but no less courageous #French people—to rescue them. Told in a series of short, suspenseful #vignettes, it is a #sequel to his book February 1933: The Winter of Literature, which followed a group of German intellectuals in the days after #Hitler came to power. Some of those whose hasty escape from #Germany #Wittstock #narrated in the first #book reappear in the second in even more dire straits. February 1933 struck a chord by charting the shift from denial to panic when #Germans suddenly found themselves living in a #fascist country, and Marseille 1940 makes another timely intervention: as governments once again shut borders and attempt to turn us against the #foreigners in our midst..."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/26/rescuing-the-refugees-marseille-1940-wittstock/

Rescuing the Refugees

After the fall of France many writers and artists fleeing the Nazis ended up in Marseille, desperately seeking a way out of occupied Europe.

The New York Review of Books

#BruceSterling Dec 28

*Well, it was great to have that labyrinthine journey through AI narrated by yet another AI. #journey #narrated #trusty #recommendations

Narrated Life Oct 10

Have you ever replayed a conversation in your head a hundred times, but never actually said the words out loud? Or carried a memory around that feels like a heavy stone in your pocket? I think we’ve all got stories tucked away in the quiet corners of our lives. #DigitalCampfire #Narrated.Life
https://community.narrated.life/the-weight-of-the-words-we-dont-say/