MLE: Multicultural London English

Para complementar nuestra lectura de Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo: sobre la vida multicultural en Londres y uno de sus acentos más característicos: MLE (Multicultural London English). This wonderful video  will help you throw some light into the accent spoken especially in London: MLE (Multicultural London English)

Read and listen to Jericho Brown · Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize por poetry

Born Nelson Demery III, Brown, 44, writes extensively about sexual identity, racial injustice, God and the intersection of love and violence. Duplex by Jericho Brown A poem is a gesture toward home. It makes dark demands I call my own. Memory makes demands darker than my own: My last love drove a burgundy car. My […]

Jeanette Winterson on BBC Radio 4 Book Club

Listen now on BBC 4 About Jeanette Winterson Jeanette was born in Manchester, UK, in 1959. Her mother was 17, and worked in a factory called Raffles, sewing overcoats for Marks and Spencer. 1 of 10 children herself, Ann couldn’t keep her new daughter and she was adopted by Jack and Constance Winterson who raised […]

Placing a Call by Deborah Levy

Writer Deborah Levy was born in South Africa in 1959. When she was only 5 her father was taken to prison for fighting the apartheid. At 9 she and her family moved to Britain. She claims she started to write at a very young age because there was so much she wanted to say and […]

Reading Workshop: John Cheever, Raymond Carver and J.D.Salinger

This is the second Reading Workshop of Andrea Woolf at El Taller de Inglés( on Zoom now…). Three unmissable representatives of the Broken American Dream. Three authors that will further guide us into the complexities of the human soul. Sign up process: when you commit yourself to attending the workshop, I will email the four […]