Globetrotter by Harold Emert

FLIP`s Twenty-third literature festival in Paraty, Brazil

The 23rd edition of the Paraty International Festival of Literature (FLIP) which concluded on Sunday 3 August 2025 displayed –-at least to this veteran of four FLIPs—current tendencies of contemporary writing both in Brazil and abroad and an emphasis on feminism. Having attended the recent Biennale Book fair in Rio de Janeiro, this observer noted […]

Rio de Janeiro’ s Cafe Valley: More than coffee beans

Located in Rio de Janeiro state, “Coffee Valley” or” O Vale do Café,” has morethan coffee beans but a rich, colorful culture including back- to- nature healing clinics, an annual music festival, a variety of health food products and a mini zoological answer to Disneyland among other treats to offer a visitor.There are an estimated […]

‘I Dreamt About You´: Brazilian play reveals a promising playwright

Whom have you ever dreamt of being? A movie or TV soap opera star, a handsome or beautiful being, a film director or famous cinema maker or someone living a more adventuresome and glamorous than yourself? This is one of the themes touched on in an excellent duo performance by veteran actress -playwright-director Carioca (Sao […]

My Favorite Writer: Nigerian-American Adichie visits Brazil

Despite the fact that I grew up reading, admiring and loving Anglo-Saxon or American writers like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Phillip Roth, Saul Bellow,and Britain’ s Graham Greene, and American journalists Pete Hamill Jimmy Breslin, she, a Nigerian-American is my favorite writer today. She writes just as well (or better) than the above icons and […]