Hervé Guibert, detail of photograph.
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- Friday, May 5, 2017 Unsteady Hands The prose fragment is a form capable of kindness. After I thought of that sentence, I thought of reading Hervé Guibert again, with students, this quarter. In his use, the fragment has so much discretion all along its edges. We all ... more»
- Sunday, February 19, 2017 Garden Windows I was standing in our kitchen this afternoon, and the light from the garden was coming through the windows, garden light, unlike any other, and I started to think of painted gardens. How it is that sometimes the paint itself is even more beautiful ... more»
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Conversation with Robert BirnbaumA couple of years ago, when my biography of Bernard Berenson came out, I had a long chat with Robert Birnbaum of Our Man in Boston and Identity Theory. The conversation was recently transcribed and posted here:https://ourmaninboston.wordpress.com/201 ... more»
- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Instagram at the VQRThe Virginia Quarterly Review invited a group of writers to post fragments of things seen and iphotoed on their instagram feed #VQRTrueStory. I posted recently on photographs of hands, details from a painting by Edgar Degas and from a photograph of Sojourner ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at PoussinThis essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review. ... more»