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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago