2015 Marks 25th Anniversary of Appalachian Trail Odyssey Happy New Year from the shores of the wild and woolly Great Lakes, where I spent my childhood. This picture from landscape photographer Mark Graf pretty much says it all about that six month season from the end of October all the way through April that Michiganders
Mother of Presidents Marries Lesbians! Approaching the winter solstice this month, pagan rites and marriage rites are both on my mind, heeding Scott Fitzgerald who advised creative people to be passionate about reconciling opposites. Cosmology has bled cinematically into these musings, in the form of INTERSTELLAR by Christopher Nolan (the love child of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
SCREENWRITER’S NOTEBOOK COALS TO NEWCASTLE DEPARTMENT Send Coffee From one coffee loving writer to another, by way of Honoré de Balzac, we have today’s post in Biographile by Joe Muscolino. Plus “eight Honor é de Balzac quotes for writers who work hard and play harder.” It’s wonderful. Stir, read and enjoy. I’ll try to hunt down
Translator’s notebook Write with your spade and garden with your pen –Vita Sackville-West Monday morning. Back at my desk. One hundred and five years ago today in 1909, here on page 198, Lily and Natalie are frolicking in the garden of their first June together. I can only join them in translation. Leaving your
