Barbara Halla is criticism editor at Asymptote and a contributor for Reading in Translation. She works as an editor and researcher, focusing in particular on the writings of contemporary and classic Albanian women authors. Halla has also written about the cultural roots of sexual violence in Albania, and her essay on Annie Ernaux and the politics of female desire is forthcoming in the anthology Le Désir au Féminin (2022).
The creative writing of the twenty-first century will be remembered for having sanctioned the passage of text from paper to digital support. But is it really true that the author’s cards have disappe…