Books I read and wrote about that month. Looking back at what grabbed my attention.
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Getting back into my rhythm with this cultural recap after a summer break. Saw some incredible things lately that need documenting. Exhibition-wise: caught the Niki de Saint-Phalle show at Grand-Palais—absolutely bursting with energy and color...
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What links Ruth Planck and Dana Dickerson? They're not friends. Barely know each other, actually. But they share the same birthday—born the same day at the same hospital. "Birthday sisters," as Ruth's mother puts it...
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Thirty years back, Couto had his moment. He was the guitarist for Super Mama Djambo, that legendary Guinea-Bissau band from the '70s, right after independence. They embodied the revolutionary spirit, the hope of a new nation...
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"Unfortunately, reality isn't particularly generous to those demanding enchantment." Bénédicte Ombredanne teaches French. Has her agrégation. She's smart, attractive, sensitive. And trapped...
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Sam Simoneaux lands in France on November 11, 1918. Learns the war just ended. This missed appointment earns him the nickname Lucky. Though luck hasn't exactly been his companion so far...
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"I'm not myself, but the wind blowing through me." —Malcolm Lowry. In 1937, Trotsky arrives in Mexico. Exiled by Stalin, he's been wandering for a decade. Diego Rivera invited him...
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"The problem with love," he continued, speaking as much to himself as to me, "is that it's both poison and antidote—and you never really know which one you're swallowing." In 2012, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture published this...
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