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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, 5 months ago
Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead
Three weeks ago, I lost my father. He was 92, a retired pediatrician revered and loved by many generations of patients, and I was his caregiver in th…
2 years, 6 months ago
After a summer like the one we endured
After a summer like the one we endured, it's an honor to write again and record a podcast without a fan whirring at my feet. Still, the paradoxical i…
2 years, 8 months ago
Joseph Roth, Igor Stravinsky, and Rutger Hauer.
Writing is all about juggling two completely different ideas like when you’re back-stitching a broken sail that the wind tore apart while you were sl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Memories of Outlived Sorrow
There is some kind of relief when old flames reach menopause and practice ghosting by default. For starters, I have more time to read the many books …
2 years, 8 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, 8 months ago
Lately
Lately, I’m trying to know summer constellations by heart, and not the real stars but the ones that twinkle in my imagination. Two novellas, one of 4…
2 years, 8 months ago
Agfacolor, Technicolor, and Kodachrome.
Bored to death with these ramblings of the so-called modern cinema, where all the novelties are about superheroes as if the audience became idiotic, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Faulkner, Cortázar, Coltrane, and Gillespie.
William Faulkner is the best writer I have ever read. He first got me with The Sound and the Fury, which he wanted to print in four different inks, t…
2 years, 11 months ago
The knife-grinder
Inside my head, I knew it was a summer morning. But I didn’t know anything else in my childhood. And yes, indeed. I could hear the thirty-second note…
2 years, 11 months ago