Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“The river Styx, stinking and sluggish and black as tar runs between the living, breathing world and the Kingdom of the dead. Do you see that tiny little boat? In that boat is my husband. Believe it or not, he’s a God.” —Isabel Greenberg, “The River of Lost Souls”
The image above is the first panel of a graphic short story produced by artist Isabel Greenberg for The Guardian in 2013. Read the full story here.
“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.” –Jace Wayland, City of Bones (2013)
You can watch Mortal Instruments: City of Bones on Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Amazon Prime.
“James Hutchinson was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in July and has been detained at Al Wathba jail – known as Dante’s Inferno. The Brit, 52, has been told he will not be released unless he pays £170,000 in “blood money” compensation to the family of a cyclist he killed in a road accident in 2013.” —Patrick Hill, “Brit held in jail known as Dante’s Inferno won’t be freed until he pays ‘blood money’,” The Mirror, August 12, 2023 (retrieved November 25, 2023)
In an interview with Royal Young, Josh Mohr describes the research he did in San Francisco, as he prepared to write his novel Fight Song (Soft Skull Press, 2013): “I did four days of terrible reconnaissance work, where I went to a couple suburbs in the East Bay and South Bay and took some pictures and notes. Then I wrote the most horrific place I could possibly envision. If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.” —Joshua Mohr, interview with Interview Magazine (2013)
Read the full interview here.
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All submissions will be considered for posting. Bibliographic references and scholarly essays are also welcome for consideration.
Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.
