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Peggy Guggenheim Goes Off-Beat

This essay exploring the world of Peggy Guggenheim in Venice is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière, which is available on Amazon in print and on Kindle. The 34 other essays in the book feature similar literary adventures and essays about traveling with intention.  Peggy Guggenheim Goes Off-Beat When Gregory Corso kissed Peggy GuggenheimContinue reading Peggy Guggenheim Goes Off-Beat

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Balzac as a Human Comedy

This essay channeling Balzac in Paris is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière, which is available on Amazon in print and on Kindle. The 34 other essays in the book feature similar literary adventures and essays about traveling with intention. Balzac: the Human Comedy Personified Many a talented creative has been taken over byContinue reading Balzac as a Human Comedy

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Anguished in Amherst

This essay channeling Emily Dickinson in Amherst is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière, which is available on Amazon in print and on Kindle. The 34 other essays in the book feature similar literary adventures and essays about traveling with intention. Emily Dickinson: Anguished in Amherst Emily Dickinson was presented to me inContinue reading Anguished in Amherst

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Henry Miller the Paris Years

This essay about Henry Miller in Paris is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière, which is available on Amazon in print and on Kindle. The 34 other essays in the book feature similar literary adventures and essays about traveling with intention. Henry Miller: Hungry, Homeless, Happy Theres only one historical figure Ive ever comeContinue reading Henry Miller the Paris Years

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Shadowing Petrarch in Parma

This essay is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière, which recently debuted on Amazon in print and on Kindle. The 34 other essays in the book feature similar literary adventures and traveling with intention.  Shadowing Petrarch in Parma The haunting strains of a bandoneon were wafting through the drizzly air, compelling me to followContinue reading Shadowing Petrarch in Parma

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Medieval Calamities in Paris

It was winter in Paris and the Père Lachaise Cemetery was awash in grays. The sky, the bare limbs of the trees, the pavers and the stone cladding the tombs coalesced into one monochromatic composition as I climbed the hill. I walked along a path made knotty by the roots of trees as they attempted…Continue reading Medieval Calamities in Paris

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Libraries Are My Temples

Libraries are my temples, the places I go to worship my tribe. The desire to record, to put words down as a way to cement thought, to unfurl storytelling are the liturgical acts that compose a writing life when it simply cannot be resisted, and many of them begin when a book is slid from…Continue reading Libraries Are My Temples

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The Architecture of Chivalry

Of course, the pose is cocky. What about Henry VIII wasn’t? Its girth is substantial and the shoulders are broad, which is not a surprise since the King had ballooned to rotundness when he wore the armor at 53 years old. He would be dead three years after he donned it during his last campaign…Continue reading The Architecture of Chivalry

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The Emperor’s Displeasure

Proof that the sword is often mightier than the pen litters history with tales of displeasure. A fairly famous case is the duel between Germaine de Staël and Napoléon, whose war of words cost the author her most fervent desire—to stay in Paris and hobnob with the literary set. She might have been able to…Continue reading The Emperor’s Displeasure

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The Camera Becomes King on Safari

Two men are chatting, the legs of their folding campaign chairs sunk in sere grasses. A leather box at their feet that contains a tea service replete with silver spoons. They are the epitome of British society in the African Bush during the 1920s, their pith helmets and khakis the veritable uniform on this wild…Continue reading The Camera Becomes King on Safari

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