Dreamers Rise

Georges Perec: Sometimes Valène dreamt of cataclysms and tempests, of whirlwinds that would carry the whole house off like a wisp of straw...

In 1975 I took a course taught by a folklorist who had a parallel career as the producer of a number of commercial recordings of folk music....

Georges Perec: She’d have done better to sell up and go back to the farm where she’d been born. Rabbits and chickens, some tomato plants, ...

Things as I see them. There is no God. There is no Heaven, no Hell, no Devil. There are no angels or demons or ghosts. There are no miracl...

One to watch out for: a promised English-language translation of Gabriele Tergit's family saga Effingers, which was originally publishe...

The death of Kelly Joe Phelps on May 31st got me thinking about my favorite Kelly Joe song, so I've dug out and updated some notes I mad...

And it's funny that this comes out dark, it's not that bad There's still a sparkle of silver in my cavity that plays music in t...

Two forceful and anguished statements in the wake of yet another mass shooting indicate that the stereotypical image of the American profess...

Two days, two eastern box turtles. This mostly terrestrial chelonian, considered a "species of special concern," is widespread in...

That the Supreme Court is poised to overturn settled law and reverse the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade should surprise no one, given the st...

A few years ago I had a good run of luck with owl sightings, but last year there were none at all and I hadn't seen any this year un...

When you really should have bought the book: the Taschen edition of the Augsburg Book of Miracles , published in 2014, is now out of print a...

The tackle creaks as the net is pulled in. On the lantern-lit deck the crew plant their feet and strain at the rope. Spilled out on the b...

Eleanor Clark, on the Oysterman's Cooperative building in Brittany, where "there is just about everything there you could ever need...

Sergio Borschevsky, the translator of Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, García Márquez, and other writers into Ukrainian, is staying put in Kiev wit...

A good friend let me borrow this LP of Scarlatti transcriptions for the guitar when we were in high school and I've always remembered it...

Some news items of potential interest to readers of this space. The translator Edmund Keeley has died. Known for his versions of the wor...

A pastel artwork by Stasys Eidrigevičius, donated by the artist to an auction to benefit Ukrainian refugees, of whom there will be many. Mo...

The post below was posted in a different venue in 2006; I'm dusting it off in honor of Michael Leddy's post at Orange Crate Art. I...

Archaeologist Alan Hardy describes a find that emerged during the excavation of a long barrow in the Berkshire Downs: A book was found w...