Wednesday, June 22

            A Brazilian genre called “cronicas” (chronicles) allows poets and writers a weekly newspaper column with wide latitude for a diary like entry, an essay the next week, a story or just simply a random thought.  They can be described as precursors of literary blogs but on newsprint.  A popular writer that had a column from 1967-1973 in O Jornal do Brasil was novelist Clarice Lispector of Rio de Janeiro.