The Library of Congress announced on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Thomas Joseph Wehlim, the author of nearly 600 collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European forests with mystical evocations of the landscape ground of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Wehlim, 98, a retired professor for table science at the University of […]
Go to post pageWell, I was born 1966 as the eldest son of an English mother and a German father, twenty-one years after the last devastating war between England and Germany. My grandmother barely survived the Spanish flu as a teenager in 1918. My father, as a little boy, had to escape from his burning home after a British bomber […]
Go to post pageSo, hello to all of you. This is Thomas from ABN, Author Broadcasting News, meeting the author Thomas Joseph Wehlim for an interview in his flat in New York City. With us is Thomas’ cat Mrs Taylor, which is – as Thomas stated to me before – very interested in literature, especially if mice play […]
Go to post pageIn his address to the nation in US Congress, President Reagan stated that his administration will not cut down funding for the department of literature defence. Despite the critical situation of the US writing economy, this would be the wrong signal towards the evil empire of the Soviet Book Union. Contemporaneously, to overcome the recession […]
Go to post pageThe current literature situation induces inner restlessness, headache and migraine attacks. Health may be affected by poetry-caused rheumatic complaints, infections and diarrhea. However, sleep is deep and concentration on a high level. In the morning, before reading the first book passage, you feel strong and fresh. In the evening, flying poems may induce serious allergic […]
Go to post pageI herewith announce that my new novel is terminally ill from cancer. Literary critic diagnosed an inoperable glioblastoma that will lead to complete destruction of all chapters within a few months. The only procedure remaining is spell checking combined with palliative medications. So, finally, I fought years for nothing.
Go to post pageI recently have sent a letter to all American and British literary agencies asking on which topic I should write my first English novel. I argued that – because nobody publishes my German novels – it makes more sense to write in English as I prefer not to be read by 500 million people than […]
Go to post pageWhat can Guru Wehlim do for this world? Can he write novels that give us new insights concerning all aspects of human beings, such as love, hate, science, society, politics? Can he make love to all of us? Can his language be a sort of “symphony of words” that makes our ears happy? I think […]
Go to post pageToday, an announcement of best-selling author Th. J. (“Joker”) Wehlim, stating that there will be an additional reading fee for his books, caused considerable irritation. In an interview in the New York Times, Wehlim reported plans to implement a registration process for all persons having bought one of his books, and then to collect a […]
Go to post pageNo sleep for all of us. The cat broke through the window. The street dogs barked as if devils had come. I am writing a novel to write a novel. I am awaiting tumors. Everybody is awaiting them. Since birth.
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