Welcome to issue three of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator, an artist and a curator of cultural programmes based in Amsterdam.Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature. Each issue has a short essay, a nerdy look at translation, a page from one of my notebooks, a list of things to read, watch or listen to, and a highlight from my archives. This podcast is the audio version of the newsletter. You can access all issues of the newsletter on The Attention Span website: www.theattentionspan.com/subscribe You can support my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theattentionspanEPISODE 3 SHOW NOTESPrivate Passions with writer Kit de Waal, on BBC 3 (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md33): I loved listening to Kit de Waal sharing these musical moments from the classical repertoire and telling stories about her life and writing. My heart melted when I heard her first choice: Sergey Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (first movement), but I will let you discover the track list for yourselves (oh, and if you’re in Amsterdam 14-16 September, Kit de Waal is coming to the Read My World Festival). No Dogs or Italians Allowed by Alain Ughetto is a superb animation film (trailer: youtu.be/185HUoBzYfc) that tells the story of migration of an Italian family from Northern Italy to France in the beginning of the 20th century, through the eyes of the grandson, the filmmaker himself. I love animation films in general, this format really allows – just like in comics – to identify with the characters and the story in a more direct way than with films where the actors are real people. To link to my film suggestion, I’ll mention Scott McLoud’s Understanding Comics from 1993 (scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/). Comics scholars and afiscionados out there, apologies, I know we all have it in our libraries already. But I also am sure many of you may not have come across this scholarly book written in the format of a comic, yet. So, if you would like to understand comics, and what I meant about connecting to characters by identifying more directly with them if they’re “drawn” (or made of papier-mâcher like in Ughetto’s film), then I do recommend McLoud’s book. Martin Scorcese’s Essay in Harper’s Bazaar: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese/

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