Announcement… Reading & Interview, via Rock and a Hard Place magazine 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Rock and a Hard Place magazine has just released a podcast wherein I read "The Parking Lot," featured in issue three, and am then subjected to a grilling by the…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part Six 21 Jun 202013 Apr 2026 I am done (shall I say, "at long last"?) with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Tome II of La recherche. When last we left our hero, he was…
Announcement… Novella Time 20 May 2020 I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part 5 13 May 202013 Apr 2026 I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
Author post Half a Face Is Better than None 27 Apr 202027 Apr 2020 There are pleasures to be found even in lockdown. There are discoveries to be made in the small minutes of living that make up so much more of our lives…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 4 15 Apr 202013 Apr 2026 Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…
Author post Musings on Proust, part 3 7 Apr 202013 Apr 2026 I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…
Author post Musings on Proust, Part 2 31 Mar 202013 Apr 2026 Finished Du coté de chez Swann last night.... Okay, I'm beginning to wonder whether I feel about Proust (so far, having read one volume out of seven, each of which…
Author post Musings on Proust, Part 1 27 Mar 202013 Apr 2026 I have at last begun reading Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. While the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying restrictions have given me more time to read, I actually…
Author post The Mockingbird’s Song 24 Mar 2020 I went on my rigorously lonely walk today under a tumbled gray sky, wandering through the residential neighborhoods nearby, with their charming houses and apartment buildings. Lots of Art-Deco touches…
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