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    • New Japanese Voices
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  • Bio
  • Journalism
  • Poetry
  • The Grand Tour
  • If Black Had a Shadow
  • New Greek Voices
  • Out of the Blue
  • Beneath the Ice
  • Digital Geishas
  • New Japanese Voices
  • Contact

A few articles...

Misia & the Muses: The Memoirs of Misia Sert (1953)

Out of Print Books We Love...

https://wonderlusttravel.com/nighstand-september-2023/ (last entry)

Misia was the muse of her day. Proust modeled two society characters after her, Vuillard was in love with her (unreciprocated) and painted her portraits with a lover's bewitchment - most famously the erotically restrained "Misia's Neck"...

The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli (2000)

Out of Print Books We Love...

https://wonderlusttravel.com/books-recommended-for-the-nightstand/ (last entry)

So very much has been written about Lord Byron, the Byronic hero himself, who died unheroicially at the age of thirty-six in Greece...

Dancing for Diaghilev: The Memoirs of Lydia Sokolova (1960)

Out of Print Books We Love...

https://wonderlusttravel.com/nightstand-books-december-2023/  (last entry)

Being a ballerina is hard. So is being a writer. It's the rare ballerina who can do both well and write a memoir...

Paris's Best District: A Love Letter to the Marais

https://wonderlusttravel.com/marais-paris-travel-guide/

I am faithful to my French lover. For years, I’ve mailed my metaphorical billet-doux or love letters to the Marais—one of the oldest neighborhoods in Paris—and I loyally return here time and again to submit myself to its pleasures...

Alice Cooper Interview: Feed My Frankenstein

https://www.spin.com/2021/02/alice-cooper-detroit-stories-interview

The big story on Alice Cooper, aside from the music (check the start to finish classic LP Love it to Death and the hit-heavy Best Of for starters) has always been theatrics. From his garage band days in the Spiders to his heyday in the ’70s and early ’80s, Alice Cooper was a bridge between rock ‘n’ roll and theater...

"Out of Print Books We Love"Column: De Chirico's Memoir

https://wonderlusttravel.com/nightstand-february-2022/

I knew next to nothing about de Chirico until last September when I visited his house museum that overlooks the Piazza di Spagna and is only a few buildings away from another notable house museum, that of Keats and Shelley, where the poet Keats spent his last tubercular ridden months...

5 Out of Print Books to Read this Summer

https://wonderlusttravel.com/out-of-print-book-reviews

So, you completed last summer’s reading list by ticking off Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past? Big gold star to you, dear reader! If you’re looking for another juicy read to tote around in your beach bag, all five books mentioned here are worthy and wonderful...


The 13 Best Make-out Songs

https://www.spin.com/2021/05/best-make-out-songs/

Making out is timeless — kisses rev up the romantic mood and stir the spirit, if not the loins. Make-out songs contain multitudes too, like the one playing when you sync with that special someone, or the tune that nano-second sucks you right back to high school when you held your teenage crush in a mind-blowing embrace...

The Top 10 Breakup Songs of all Time

https://www.spin.com/2021/11/best-break-up-songs/

Sometimes you’re the windshield; sometimes you’re the bug. This bit of philosophical wisdom was imparted to me long ago by a guy whose name I don’t remember, nor can I recall the breakup...

Iceland by the Book

https://wonderlusttravel.com/literary-iceland-travel-recommendations/

Here, on this literally most literate island, the skald, or poet, is revered, and as an avid traveler may already know, Iceland is the country where, per capita, people read, buy, and publish more books than anywhere else on the planet...

Roman Holiday

https://wonderlusttravel.com/roman-holiday/

In his memoir, the artist Giorgio de Chirico writes, “It is said that Rome is the center of the world and Piazza di Spagna is the center of Rome.” Not much has changed since he lived near the Spanish Steps...

Leonard Cohen's 10 Best Songs

https://www.spin.com/2020/12/best-leonard-cohen-songs/

To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, when the student is ready, the Leonard Cohen song will appear. Philosopher king and ladies’ man, poet and ordained Buddhist monk, aesthete and pilgrim — in his nearly 50-year musical career...

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