Six posts. Paris exhibitions. Literary fiction. A fakir's journey.
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November vanished. Thirty days gone in a blink. Exhibitions dominated my calendar. First up: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the Orangerie. Saw this legendary artist couple for the first time. Their combined work creates something explosive - art fused with passion, politics, and raw emotion.
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"You find your path by walking it." Pierre Ubik writes sci-fi bestsellers. He escapes Paris media frenzy for a tiny Breton village. There he meets Lucie, who lost her sight but gained new vision. A quiet novel about finding your way when everything goes dark.
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Djian writes lyrics for Stéphane Eicher. Now he inhabits a musician's skin completely. Daniel is fifty-three and stratospheric - millions of albums sold, thousands of concerts played. Fame at its peak. But success means nothing when everything else crumbles.
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"Would I have been so afraid if Lindbergh hadn't become president, or if I hadn't been born Jewish?" 1940. Young Philip's family worships FDR. The kid is seven, collecting stamps. But history takes a sharp turn when aviator Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt. Suddenly, being Jewish in America means something entirely different.
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"The world is a silk handkerchief from India." Ajatashatru Lavash Patel is a fakir. He travels from Rajasthan to Paris for one simple errand: buy a bed of nails at Ikea. (No Ikea in India, apparently.) Things go sideways. He ends up trapped in a wardrobe, shipped across Europe. Absurd, funny, wild.
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Dell Parsons lives an ordinary life. It's 1960. He's fifteen in Great Falls, Montana. His family considers this place the middle of nowhere - another Air Force transfer for his father. Then his parents rob a bank. Everything ordinary ends right there.
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