Starbucks has an old train car on the side of the 400. #cafe

#Huntsville.

#CedarCanoeBooks

#NeigeSinno’s #SadTiger, translated by Natasha Lehrer at #CedarCanoeBooks. Seven Stories Press

#DavidHockney

“A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.” #FrançoiseSagan’s #BonjourTristesse youtu.be/jKYEyYcraDY?si…

“There are so many ways of walking about and the best, in my opinion, is the Greek way, because it is aimless, anarchic, thoroughly and discordantly human.” #HenryMiller’s #TheColossusofMaroussi. Durrell Society

“I realize that I have skipped over an important factor: the nearness of the sea with its incessant rhythm.”#FrançoiseSagan #BonjourTristesse

“It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ‘fronts’ people assume before one another’s eyes, and the ‘front’ a writer puts on the face of reality.” #FrançoiseSagan to the The Paris Review in 1956. #BonjourTristesse

Missing #Illy.

“The current is so strong it could carry everything away—rocks, a cathedral, a city. There’s a storm blowing inside the water. A wind raging.” #MargueriteDuras #TheLover

New episode up now. Les Belles Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir, with translator Lauren Elkin in conversation with Andy Miller and John Mitchinson. backlisted.fm/episodes/239-t…

Missing #Merci.

Congratulations #MichaelCrummey on winning the Dublin Literary Award!

Canadian author wins 2025 Dublin Literary Award rte.ie/culture/2025/0… via RTÉ

I have the airport almost entirely to myself. Someone tell me a story.