Travel Notes

On Reading Annie Ernaux’s "The Years" in Paris

“It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, absolute, devouring the present as it goes, all the way to the final image…

Feb 17 •

On Reading George Gissing’s "New Grub Street" beside the Acropolis

Too much “there” there.....

Dec 21, 2023 •

On Reading "To the Lighthouse" beside the Ionian Sea

“I am making up To the Lighthouse—the sea is to be heard all through it.”

May 20, 2023 •

Anne Carson, Eros, and “Another Bride in Porto"

“When I desire you a part of me is gone...."

Apr 24, 2023 •

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