A few recent articles...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...