Viola recently moved from Manhattan to Singapore to take her interest in Asia beyond the borders of NYC’s Chinatown. Unsurprisingly, she’s taking the East by storm: weekends in Bali, Durian hunting trips, and Burmese temples are all common fare for this adventuress. Beyond traveling the world, Viola is passionate about understanding what motivates […]
Today, Natalia Sylvester shares with us the nuggets of wisdom that keeps her going. She talks of enjoying the comforts of childhood, the importance of reading, and taking small steps to make big ones. Where did she learn all this? She’s got a super star mom, who not only saved […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland I love books, especially children’s books. Young audiences are demanding – their attention spans is short. So, within just a few pages, the stories need to convey great messages. I recently visited the kids literature section of a local bookstore in Brooklyn and […]
So, for our first email of 2012, we wanted to take a moment to re-introduce you to PenTales so you know exactly what we’re all about.Here it goes:PenTales is trying hard to build a culture – online and offline – where people stop and ask each […]
I met Lori Bizzoco for the first time when she lost her phone and I let her use mine at an uptown New York party. As soon as we started talking, we realized how much we had in common: a thirst for fame, childhood loneliness, partying habits. As I got […]
by PenTales Pundit Royal Young Often, you don’t realize the importance of people until they leave you. My younger brother and I really got close after I left for college. Of course, as kids growing up on the Lower East Side, we shared pillow fights and comic books, Hanukah candy […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Pho Therapy”: Anna Huddleston’s simple, funny, big-hearted story portrays two friends (former college roommates) who are divided by geography (one is in Russia, the other in Belgium) but united by Skype, man […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland Since Roxanne loves French so much, we’ll do a little exception here and have a short intro in French, pour lui faire plaisir. Née à Palo Alto en 1985, Roxanne adore le français, quitte la Valley pour poursuivre son projet en France et […]
topic; 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Remembering September 11th 2001 takes me back to my student flat in Germany, my washing-up, my radio, droning in a language I -frustratingly- didn’t properly understand. Occasionally a fighter jet roars overhead. My memories feel like a dislocation from […]