Morte D’Urban
6 of 7 books I love. Save a very few literary Minnesotans, I don’t expect many FBers to know this novel, reissued by NYRB, won the National Book Award in 1963. It’s set, as was Mr. Powers, in the environs of St. John’s, the Benedictine college and monastery midpoint between my mother’s and father’s towns […]
Smoke
7 of 7 books I love. Oscar Pino’s Address Book in a green canvas slipcase. North Patterson, NJ: Joshua Meier’s Division/W.R. Grace & Co., 1977. With photos & paper ephemera. “Somewhere in this little book I will start to change my life. And if that in itself means anything to anybody good. Because I do […]
La Rumour/The Truk
With my old friend Gildas Dissou and my new friend Hamé Bourokba, of La Rumeur – France’s most subversive rap group, in NYC for his new film ‘The Truk’ (curiously my name backwards) showing Sunday at the Walter Reade Theater. It’s killer. (photo: Adam Nakhla-Thometz) On Wednesday Gildas invited me to a screening of this […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library