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Pathos verging on bathos
October sunrises arrive late because, until the coming weekend, they simply do not decide to set back the clocks. Every year they promise that this s…
1 day, 3 hours ago
The Billionaire, the Goddess, and the Daredevil
That Young Sailor—who by no coincidence then answered to the name of Javier—was signed on aboard Leviathan, a sailboat just over a hundred feet in le…
1 week, 3 days ago
Some Books I Have Dreamed Of
Once upon a time there was Michael Morris, a professor trying to instill at eight in the morning a sliver of love for novels in a bunch of teens, who…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
1856: The Year of Mighty Books
The pleasure of reading lies in time travel—when I lend my imagination to the page and arrive in worlds that have vanished entirely. I am not talking…
4 weeks ago
Weightless words
I am blessed with an inexhaustible optimism, and every moment I live feels as though it overflows with infinite meaning, provided I give it my undivi…
1 month ago
Altering History to Serve the Story
To a greater or lesser extent, all authors have Charles Dickens as a pebble in their shoe. No matter how much I want to forget his narrative mastery,…
1 month, 1 week ago
Two Eulogies for the Price of One
Truth be told, I am not a fan of writing eulogies for people I haven’t met personally. But today, September 3rd, I will make an exception to this rul…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Two Irishmen in Paris
Innovations in literature are born from the author’s natural drive to create. There is an audience that quickly tires of being sold the same story, t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Shiny Red Waco
One of the greatest challenges for a reader of novels is that their way of thinking, their point of view, the scale of their interests, invariably ch…
2 months ago
L'Appel du vide.
Few adventurers, and many idiots among them, mostly adrenaline junkies trapped in alpha-male mind frames, and fewer amazons, had been jumping from cl…
2 months, 1 week ago