Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Short Period of My Life’s Happiness at Charmettes
by Dan Kane and Shawn Clankie The Savoie denotes both a region and province in southeastern France, comprising roughly that area between Geneva (and the…
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Ovid in Exile
by James A. Clapp That the avid traveler is often an avid reader (and/or moviegoer) is frequently noted. It is an observation that surely applies to…
A Week in Provence, Reflections upon Peter Mayles’ A Year in Provence
by David Sclar Anyone who has read Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence will appreciate the anticipation that consumed me when I had the opportunity…
Lorca’s Deep Song
by Annette Aryanpour More than sixty years ago one of the greatest poets of this century died. He was also the most famous victim of…
The Strange Case Of The Jack Kerouac Estate
Jack Kerouac is known in the popular imagination as the harbinger of the Beat movement – a free-wheeling spirit who “hit the road” in search…
Marguerite Duras In Sa Dec
by Pamela Payne French writer Marguerite Duras spent some of her childhood in Sa Dec, a sprawling busy town in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.…
The Harlem Renaissance, Washington DC And the Rise of Langston Hughes
by Joe Kovacs It’s something of an oddity to mention writers and Washington DC, in the same sentence; one traditionally associates the city with the…
Walt Whitman And The Civil War
by Claire Wang Walt Whitman was born in Huntington, Long Island on May 31, 1819, the second of nine children (four of whom were handicapped),…
The House That Jack Built – The Beauty Ranch
by Mark Richardson I am … only just now beginning my first feeble attempts at building a house for myself. That is to say, I…
A Brief Respite: Nikos Kazantzakis on Mt.Athos
by James Miller As the thick reinforced door shuts behind me, closing out the secular world, I listen to the silence and breathe in the…