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Up Close & Personal
For the last two months, I haven’t cut any podcasts. Oh, wait! A clarification is needed. Some people still think this is another newsletter, but if …
2 years, 1 month ago
Frilly
I have a confession to make. A friend of mine who still lives in Lausanne taught me a long time ago the only attractive thing about the internet, som…
2 years, 3 months ago
Joseph Roth, Igor Stravinsky, and Rutger Hauer.
Writing is all about juggling two completely different ideas like when you’re on deck back-stitching a broken sail that the wind tore apart while you…
2 years, 3 months ago
Uncut Book
Lucas Folch took at random a book from the stack of copies, placed by reflex the reading glasses at the top of the nose, and without noticing it, beg…
2 years, 4 months ago
Offensiphobia and the Destroying Angel
During the past week, I have learned how to drive on Substack without fear, as I did one summer on the narrow paths of the island of Majorca while ta…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mighty Books
In the first month, my New Year's Day happiness went wrong. I donated my old printed books to a friend, thinking sixteen years of storage would not g…
2 years, 4 months ago
A Transnational Authoress
Had my fill of Karen Blixen for a long time. Because all the dramatizations I have watched this week about her are based on corny clichés, masquerade…
2 years, 4 months ago
Pandering
Sometimes, I wonder why the mere reading of some books stirs in me the irrepressible appetite of writing. Like just yesterday, when I watched with an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Truman's Swans
Yesterday, after waiting six months for the release, I could finally gorge like Pantagruel in a bookish streaming series about the one and only Truma…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kapuscinki
It came to my attention in Russia by Antony Beevor, a British military historian whom I have followed since he wrote the astonishing Stalingrad, the …
2 years, 5 months ago