Tania Strauss 

NYC exile in Berlin. Freelance writer and editor with a background in film and book publishing. Trying to write books and other weird things while somehow paying the rent.
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“That said, here I am writing about politics and current events, in an admittedly vent-y and navel-gazing sort of way. Maybe I’m trying to work this out in my head and come to some sort of conclusion …. but I have honestly failed. I am confounded, and in being so, I have fallen into the trap where the only subject I can find in this mess is myself. But maybe realizing that is the point.”

The View from Abroad

Some Glück for the lovers.

Valentines Day Poetry Bonus

Olga👏Tokarczuk👏

“That said, here I am writing about politics and current events, in an admittedly vent-y and navel-gazing sort of way. Maybe I’m trying to work this out in my head and come to some sort of conclusion …. but I have honestly failed. I am confounded, and in being so, I have fallen into the trap where the only subject I can find in this mess is myself. But maybe realizing that is the point.”

The View from Abroad

I wrote about the ambivalence of watching all of this shit unfold from an ocean away, and how that is confounding my response to it. And both the inevitability and uselessness being confounded.

The View from Abroad

Oh man.

It’s a cliche but my mom put Jane Austen in my hands when I was in 4th grade and I still feel it all the time. Both for novels as a means to examine people and behavior, and certain things about humor and cadence of sentences.

Madeleine L’Engle, my childhood favorite, for all kinds of things about thematic and emotional richness. …

💬 Weekly Question: What novelist did you learn the most about writing from reading?

One of the first cool cultural things I did when I moved to Berlin was go see METROPOLIS with a live orchestra. One of my favorite things about the city (and one of the things that made me feel at home living here) is that it has such a great cinema scene. I barely went to the movies last year and going more again is one of my very important goals for 2025.

TODAY IN BERLIN: THE RISE OF METROPOLIS
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“This year, I want to focus on my writing and career, and on working towards a more sustainable solution for how those two things should coexist. Do I know what that will look like yet? I do not! But I am going to start figuring it out, because I am sick of feeling professionally stuck and creatively and intellectually unfulfilled. I’m 4…

What the Hell Am I Doing Here?

Woke up in a money panic this morning and had to breathe and remind myself that the “work year” is only two days old.

As a person wired for financial anxiety I frequently question why the hell I’m still freelancing, but after 12 years of running my own life, I honestly recoil at the idea of letting an employer dictate my day-to-day. Especially if I don’t really, really believe in what that employer is putting into the world, and how they’re doing it - which is an increasingly high bar to clear…

“This year, I want to focus on my writing and career, and on working towards a more sustainable solution for how those two things should coexist. Do I know what that will look like yet? I do not! But I am going to start figuring it out, because I am sick of feeling professionally stuck and creatively and intellectually unfulfilled. I’m 4…

What the Hell Am I Doing Here?