My Painterly Sister Weatherly
May 4
Springtime with artists in the family: never a drab moment in the Virginia countryside.
114 Years Ago Today in Paris
Apr 30
April 30, 1909: a daughter of France was coming over. Miss Barney gathered the plover’s eggs and put the Château Yquem on ice, betting on another comet year.
Élisabeth de Gramont (1875-1954)
Apr 23
April 23 is the birthday of the Modernist author, sculptor and music patron Élisabeth de Gramont. More than 500 passionate letters exist between Élisabeth and her lifelong lover and “eternal mate,” Natalie Barney. Nobody’s read them in English. Till now.
My Goodreads
Apr 22
What are you reading this spring? I’ve always got a few books going at any given time, including this one.
May Ball, 1894
Apr 12
Join me 119 years ago in the Paris ballroom of the Duke and Duchess de Gramont, where Consuelo Vanderbilt is making her “social début.”
In Season
Apr 5
It’s poetry season for me. Here’s an old one.
What Drives Her Crazy
Mar 25
Gay marriage. It’s in the news. My character Valerie Drummond, the 73 year-old Anglo-Irish countess living in New York, had an opinion on that back in 1993.
Life Lessons from Book 3
Mar 8
Epigrams and aphorisms are making a comeback, going by the nonfiction best sellers. Here’s a fresh look at the state of things from Sylvie, Book Three in the Tabou quintet, now available for all eReaders.
Translating Sex
Feb 2
Translating sex? What’s not to get excited about?
January Reading
Jan 9
Where’s the Homer of lesbian love, the Tolstoy of lesbian love? Where’s the Maurice of lesbian love? Where’s the Joyce or the Proust of lesbian love?