Booked at Zentralbibliothek: Filipino Plot Twists
In the City Event
A Filipino literary powerhouse iconography exhibit turns the library into a shrine of Philippine book publishing chaos featuring: Butch Dalisay’s vintage fountain pen, delicate but deadly, one that’s killed more fictional lovers than heartbreak ever could; Bebang Siy’s bicycle helmet with a collection of picked-up coins around the metro, accompanied by her daily notes and struggles as a Filipino and a woman; Budjette Tan’s drafts from the underworld of Trese, still searching for the next monster; and Ambeth Ocampo’s glasses and Freud (a super cute and iconic doll)—dusty but sharp, half-scholarly, half-shady.
