Harlem, a Poetry Lesson.
Featuring Jumel Terrace Books and The Private Library. Bruce Weber’s been supportive of the shop for several years now. Asked about his favorite haunts for the book My City, My New York he talked about our walks around Harlem. Last January, a shoot he did on location here appeared in German Vogue called All That […]
10 books on Art
There is nothing wrong with lists of 10 so long as they are disassociated with being the BEST of anything. I may get more requests than most for 10 Best Books, with admonitions NOT to think about it, from the inquiring minds of the internets, where a Zen-like preoccupation with the doctrine […]
Charles Fortner’s Return to his Native Land: Treme.
A year ago our friend Charles Fortner, of the 6th Ward in New Orleans, was felled by a stroke. An authority on local cuisine, it was something of an occupational hazard. Having just returned from five days dining with Covington’s own Camilla, Charles and another of Treme’s highly esteemed connoisseurs, Lolis Edward Elie, I can […]
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