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The Dog Star
September is my favorite month for several reasons. Once the haze dissipates, the crowds that come with summer in a beach town also disappear, especi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Wise Blood
With indescribable relief, I note that the summer storms have finally arrived and two-thousand-year-old festival known as Ferragosto is behind us. Th…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Long Way Back
Marcel Proust had an epic quarrel in 1895 France with the literary critic Charles Sainte-Beuve on what the reader should know about any author and al…
2 years, 2 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, 2 months ago
All Memory is Fiction, and All Fiction is a Memory.
Today, the Olympic Games in Paris will finally open after the mayoress has tried to convince us that the Seine River is cleaner than ever by taking a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mary Flannery Full of Grace.
Last week I suggested a biopic called Wildcat, based on the brief life of the American writer Flannery O'Connor and the extraordinary work she was ab…
2 years, 3 months ago
The French Wolf
One day in June, during the three-year period of covid, a girlfriend whom I lost track of at the turn of the century so that her phone fell out of th…
2 years, 3 months ago
Hither, Thither, and Yon.
Emerging from the dark and foreboding forest, the jongleur made his way to a stunning glade adorned with a vibrant array of wild flowers. Over five h…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Jongleur's Chant
After the February killings of the marshals, the new governor of Paris Étienne Marcel was having trouble finding supplies in a city suffering from sc…
2 years, 3 months ago
Portrait of the Artist as a Performer
I was a boy wonder, and I loved to hate the guts of whoever was a killjoy. And mostly, any authority figures who were poorly paid teachers, so I was …
2 years, 4 months ago