Dreamers Rise

UNDERGROUND RIVERS

Friday, November 27, 2009

Spencer Holst: On Demons

›
In the olden days of the Arabian Nights a fisherman threw his raggle-taggle net into the Mediterranean. He pulled, and pulled, and pulled th...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

The stone

›
The field had been abandoned two years before. Someone had come and hauled off the cattle for the winter and in the spring they didn't c...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Kiuchi in monochrome

›
A solitary figure stands silhouetted at the bottom of an expanse of gray, its back turned. Directly beyond, seemingly floating in space but ...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Ultramarine

›
The old man was only her uncle, not her father, but he had raised her -- he and his wife, while she lived -- and she was the next of kin. Sh...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Pleasures of Drabness

›
As a rule I'm a sucker for loud, garish colors, the more the merrier, but the images below celebrate the lost, enforced virtues of tight...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Antaeus, 1970-1994

›
In later years it would become just another literary magazine, albeit a very good one, but in its first decade there really was something sp...
2 comments:
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Miss Eberle and Mr. Sullivan (conclusion)

›
In the weeks that followed, Matilda returned to the apartment on Bedford Street every Saturday afternoon. She would have come more often, if...

Serizawa at the Japan Society

›
I've just returned from the Japan Society's beautifully mounted exhibition, Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design, devoted to...
Friday, October 09, 2009

Miss Eberle and Mr. Sullivan (VI)

›
Mr. Sullivan's lodgings occupied the back half of the top floor of a narrow four-story brick building on Bedford Street. There was a rat...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Miss Eberle and Mr. Sullivan (V)

›
Matilda spent the month of July at her family's summer cottage in the Adirondacks. Her parents -- separately -- and her brothers, came a...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

The Equitable Monument

›
Aloft amidst the vapors Of an early morning dew Over old Manhattan Island Comes the sunlight's golden hue. Around me mammoth buildings. ...
Saturday, October 03, 2009

One Brotherhood

›
Editorial cartoons from Electrical Worker: Official Journal of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1914 and 1915).
Friday, October 02, 2009

Carnival

›
Through the night the roller-coaster and its screaming choir, and the soft, mechanical music of the carousel, go on, and the limousines stop...
1 comment:
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Miss Eberle and Mr. Sullivan (IV)

›
Mr. T. Sullivan did not appear at Matilda's next modeling session, nor the one that followed it, and she decided that he probably felt t...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Useful Plants of Guam

›
(William Edwin Safford's 1905 ethnobotanical classic has just been re-issued in a handsome facsimile edition by Guamology Publishing. Be...
5 comments:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Ancient Tales & Folk-Lore of Japan

›
This is way out of my price range, but what a gorgeous book this must be. "A great thick book of folk tales, illustrated with 62 full ...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.