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2021 Books Read
I lived at three addresses this year. I moved twice. In the middle of a pandemic. It’s been a year of upheaval, transition, as well as endurance. For most of this year, the majority of my stuff was in storage. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, Balkans, Billy Wilder, Biography, books read, Cary Grant, Czeslaw Milosz, David McCullough, Edvard Radzinsky, Elinor Lipman, England, essays, Eve Babitz, Evelyn Waugh, fiction, Germany, Hitler, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Italy, Kirov, Liz Phair, Memoirs, Nancy Lemann, Nick Tosches, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, Poland, politics, Robert Conquest, Robert Kaplan, Russia, Stalin, Sweden, Thomas Mann, Tom Wolfe, Vladimir Nabokov, war, WWII, Yugoslavia
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading
It’s been a while. Been a very busy summer. Family vacation as we do every year. Reunions with family after the lockdown. Tears when hugging aunts and uncles. New job, new digs, lots of change. Lots of writing too! Less … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, Cary Grant, Czeslaw Milosz, Eve Babitz, fiction, Ireland, Memoirs, Poland, politics, Stalin, stuff I've been reading, war
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Photo of the Day: A work in progress
Nearly 20 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the 1 line Cortlandt Street station finally re-opened the year before last. It took that long, the destruction was so total. It’s a beautiful subway station … which puts … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Graffiti on another level
In the mid-2000s, I went to Ireland. I bummed around in the Republic and then took the train north to visit my friend Carrie and her husband Anthony. They lived in Belfast, in the Catholic neighborhood always in the news … Continue reading
2020 Books Read
What a year, huh. What a dumpster-fire year. I read a lot, mostly in the mornings, and it helped create rituals for the days, which often seemed endlessly the same, interchangeable. I read a lot of long and challenging books … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, ballet, Ballets Russes, Belfast, Biography, books read, culture, Czechoslovakia, Czeslaw Milosz, dance, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Bishop, Eminem, essays, Ezra Pound, fiction, H.D., Hannah Arendt, history, Hitler, Ireland, Jane Austen, Jean Arthur, Marcel Proust, Nick Tosches, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, poetry, Poland, politics, Rebecca West, Robert Kaplan, Robert Lowell, Roman empire, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shirley Jackson, Stalin, true crime, Ukraine, war, WWII, Yugoslavia
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Review: Assassins (2020)
For those of you – like myself – who caught wind of the first part of this crazy story – that Kim Jong-un’s half-brother was assassinated in broad daylight by two teenage girls – and then didn’t follow along as … Continue reading
Review: Collective (2020)
I reviewed Collective, a documentary about the political upheaval (understatement) in Romania following a 2015 nightclub fire that killed 27 people and injured 100s others. The upheaval toppled the government. Collective gives you a front-row seat to what happened next. … Continue reading
Oh Lady of the Harbor Shine Your Light On Me
Maintenance is a group effort. Taking liberty for granted means she goes to rust. You can’t just LEAVE her there. You have to take CARE of her. I can see her from the park at the end of my street. … Continue reading
You only get one shot.
Barack Obama used to listen to “Lose Yourself” backstage before he gave a big speech. It got him pumped up. It gets everyone pumped up. It gets me pumped up and I have listened to this song probably 10,000 times. … Continue reading
