Archives
September 2010
Roadside Picnic Arkady & Boris Strugatsky 6 September 2010
At San Giovanni 3 September 2010
Blustery 1 September 2010
August 2010
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda 26 August 2010
Crest of a Wave 23 August 2010
Stardust 17 August 2010
Ferie a Roma 11 August 2010
War and Peace, The End Leo Tolstoy 8 August 2010
Moving Along 2 August 2010
July 2010
To Lago Albano 27 July 2010
War and Peace, Volume 3 Leo Tolstoy 23 July 2010
The Maytrees x 2 Annie Dillard 20 July 2010
San Clemente 18 July 2010
Sky and Sea 12 July 2010
Gone Swimming 7 July 2010
I Am Henry Miller and Annie Dillard's Love Child 3 July 2010
June 2010
Conversations with Henry Miller 27 June 2010
War and Peace, Volume Two Leo Tolstoy 22 June 2010
The Portrait Nikolai Gogol 18 June 2010
Sun is Star 13 June 2010
On Turning 30 7 June 2010
The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 6 June 2010
May 2010
City/Country 27 May 2010
War and Peace, Volume One Leo Tolstoy 23 May 2010
Doubt 17 May 2010
Rome 13 May 2010
A Rocking Boat 8 May 2010
Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio Amara Lakhous 5 May 2010
April 2010
Weymouth Sands John Cowper Powys 30 April 2010
Returning 25 April 2010
Back to Formello 22 April 2010
Back to Bangkok 19 April 2010
Vietnam, South to North 11 April 2010
March 2010
Camping Trip 29 March 2010
Island Hopping 23 March 2010
John Cowper Powys in Ko Phayam 16 March 2010
From a Hammock 11 March 2010
Under Chiang Mai's Skin 4 March 2010
February 2010
On Being a Tourist in Bangkok 25 February 2010
Departure Imminent 19 February 2010
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 16 February 2010
Preparations 12 February 2010
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 9 February 2010
In Michigan 3 February 2010
January 2010
The Fifth Child Doris Lessing 18 January 2010
Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 13 January 2010
Superstition 11 January 2010
Because I Was Flesh Edward Dahlberg 6 January 2010
So We Go 4 January 2010
December 2009
Cooking 21 December 2009
Morwyn John Cowper Powys 18 December 2009
Formello 14 December 2009
Two Trips 8 December 2009
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 3 December 2009
November 2009
The Insurgent Noah Cicero 26 November 2009
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 17 November 2009
Ciao Bracciano, Ciao! 12 November 2009
On Inhumanity 6 November 2009
October 2009
Reading Russian in English 29 October 2009
The Maytrees Annie Dillard 24 October 2009
On Why I'm Not on Facebook 20 October 2009
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 13 October 2009
A Book to Change Me 7 October 2009
If Ever... 1 October 2009
September 2009
Funny Story 27 September 2009
New Neighbors 14 September 2009
The Proof of the Honey Salwa al Neimi 9 September 2009
Summer/Fall 4 September 2009
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1 September 2009
August 2009
Tori Amos: Disintegration 25 August 2009
Technique Belongs in the Trash 18 August 2009
Anna Karenina, so far Leo Tolstoy 13 August 2009
Relevant 5 August 2009
July 2009
The Pure and the Impure Colette 30 July 2009
Ballast Overboard 23 July 2009
The Summer Before the Dark Doris Lessing 19 July 2009
Appetites Caroline Knapp 13 July 2009
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 5 July 2009
June 2009
Down to the Lake 30 June 2009
The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 25 June 2009
Perfect 23 June 2009
Briefing for a Descent into Hell Doris Lessing 16 June 2009
Sex in Italy 10 June 2009
Force of Circumstance Simone de Beauvoir 3 June 2009
May 2009
Graduation Time 26 May 2009
The Process 19 May 2009
A Mano 10 May 2009
Is This Beauty 4 May 2009
April 2009
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 23 April 2009
Chinese Lanterns 16 April 2009
Letter from Another Lettera 14 April 2009
On Having a Sharp Tongue 6 April 2009
The Books in My Life Henry Miller 1 April 2009
March 2009
A Fig Tree 24 March 2009
The Sirian Experiments Doris Lessing 18 March 2009
Black Curse 16 March 2009
A Kind of List 5 March 2009
February 2009
Flying 23 February 2009
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 17 February 2009
Stand Behind the Line 13 February 2009
A Glastonbury Romance John Cowper Powys 11 February 2009
A Glastonbury Romance, an introduction John Cowper Powys 3 February 2009
January 2009
Fluidity 28 January 2009
Review on Demand 19 January 2009
Dickens Chic 14 January 2009
Speechless 6 January 2009
Descents of Memory Morine Krissdóttir 2 January 2009
December 2008
Home 26 December 2008
More/Less 21 December 2008
This is Not a Book! 11 December 2008
The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 8 December 2008
November 2008
Krishnamurti Mary Lutyens 30 November 2008
To Venus 27 November 2008
Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin 18 November 2008
On Brenda Venus and Immortality 14 November 2008
Autobiography John Cowper Powys 11 November 2008
The 1st of November 1 November 2008
October 2008
Cruelty 30 October 2008
In Times of Shortage 27 October 2008
No Mere Idea 23 October 2008
Miscellanea 20 October 2008
The Part of the Magician 15 October 2008
Response to Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture 11 October 2008
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 9 October 2008
Femininity and the Present 7 October 2008
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 3 October 2008
September 2008
How Sonia Slept 30 September 2008
On Thought 25 September 2008
The Porno-Sex Disorder 23 September 2008
Something Lighter 21 September 2008
Unbearable Weight, 4 Susan Bordo 19 September 2008
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five Doris Lessing 17 September 2008
Unbearable Weight, 3 Susan Bordo 10 September 2008
Era of the Hyperreal 8 September 2008
Unbearable Weight, 2 Susan Bordo 6 September 2008
Unbearable Weight, 1 Susan Bordo 4 September 2008
Sketchy Surroundings 1 September 2008
August 2008
Shikasta Doris Lessing 29 August 2008
Free Shots 24 August 2008
Bread 18 August 2008
Good Waste, Bad Waste 14 August 2008
Valerie and Arianna Talk 11 August 2008
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 7 August 2008
Summer Vacation 4 August 2008
July 2008
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 23 July 2008
Una Forchetta 21 July 2008
Stuck in Time 16 July 2008
Porius John Cowper Powys 8 July 2008
The Desert Nomad 2 July 2008
June 2008
Eid-ul Adha 30 June 2008
Ode to Type-writer 23 June 2008
To Do the Hay 21 June 2008
Porius, again John Cowper Powys 18 June 2008
Tree with its Life in the Air 10 June 2008
Brittany #1111 4 June 2008
May 2008
Happy Birthday! 30 May 2008
Brittany #1 27 May 2008
Porius, so far John Cowper Powys 22 May 2008
The Train 20 May 2008
Inside/Outside Cat 13 May 2008
Third or Fourth Day of Spring Henry Miller 5 May 2008
April 2008
The Firsts 28 April 2008
The Book 22 April 2008
fools! 16 April 2008
Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 15 April 2008
Spring Cleaning 8 April 2008
March 2008
Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 30 March 2008
Mediterranean Airs 21 March 2008
Autobiography Lawrence Ferlinghetti 17 March 2008
Blood and Guts 10 March 2008
Klaus 2 March 2008
February 2008
Arianna 25 February 2008
On Cats Doris Lessing 17 February 2008
Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 8 February 2008
Isaac 5 February 2008
January 2008
SEX 25 January 2008
Landlocked Doris Lessing 17 January 2008
Reflections 15 January 2008
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 6 January 2008
December 2007
Obsession and Awe 14 December 2007
On the Necessity of the Story 10 December 2007
November 2007
The Children (a fairy tale of sorts) 25 November 2007
On a Bench 13 November 2007
October 2007
Behold! A Pantheon! 25 October 2007
A Rant. 12 October 2007
Plexus Henry Miller 7 October 2007
September 2007
To Work or Not to Work? 27 September 2007
Cat Barn 14 September 2007
Internet no.2 2 September 2007
August 2007
Sexus Henry Miller 21 August 2007
The Meaning of Meaning 10 August 2007
July 2007
The Internet 21 July 2007
June 2007
Bracciano, a Portrait 26 June 2007
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes 16 June 2007
May 2007
Mangi! 28 May 2007
Valerie Walks the Streets of Rome 9 May 2007
April 2007
Thoughts on Transitions 30 April 2007
The Life of a Pearl 13 April 2007
Life (a true story) 12 April 2007
How Do You Close a Book? 11 April 2007
Martha Quest Doris Lessing 6 April 2007
March 2007
An Invokation of Former Frustration 29 March 2007
Blue Boy Jean Giono 19 March 2007
Written from Rome 13 March 2007
The Colossus of Maroussi Henry Miller 7 March 2007
February 2007
Henry Miller and the Life Abundant 24 February 2007
The Unearthed and Revived 16 February 2007
Death on the Installment Plan Louis-Ferdinand Céline 9 February 2007
Fantastical Roald Dahl 5 February 2007
January 2007
Lost Knowledge 30 January 2007
East of Eden vs. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 15 January 2007
The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing 14 January 2007
November 2006
Of Death and the Garden 17 November 2006