“I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.” – In the Woods “I think that is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at at all costs.” – The Secret History I didn...
https://tinselcreation.com/2016/11/28/secret-influences-on-tana-frenchs-in-the-woods/
I recently read Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life. (Many thanks to my friend T. for lending me her copy!) I’m not going to write an actual review; in any case, I’m still sorting out m...
https://tinselcreation.com/2016/05/31/my-back-pages-perfume-in-a-little-life/
I’ve been an avid reader of Henry Alford’s prose for more than two decades, so I was delighted to note that his latest column for The New York Times recounts his unscientific, but highly amu...
This is my fourth and final post in honor of William B. Yeats’s 150-year anniversary. I’m backtracking all the way to my initial encounter with Yeats’s poetry. Cricket magazine published �...
Today is Frida Kahlo’s birthday. In honor of this ever-fascinating artist (a fellow moon-child!), I’ve just written a short piece about Kahlo, her garden, and the current exhibition at the ...
https://tinselcreation.com/2015/07/06/july-6th-frida-kahlos-birthday/
Part three of my personal tribute to Yeats and his 150th anniversary. I remember a scene or two from the 1986 film “Peggy Sue Got Married” (directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Kathl...
https://tinselcreation.com/2015/06/25/william-butler-yeats-when-you-are-old-peggy-sue-got-married/
Part Two: this one dates back to my teen years. Even if I had tried, I wouldn’t have been able to keep track of the times I listened to Sinead O’Connor’s debut album “The Lion and The Cob...
https://tinselcreation.com/2015/06/18/william-butler-yeats-no-second-troy-sinead-oconnor-troy/
As promised, here’s my first of four posts about some of my favorite poems by William Butler Yeats and the funny ways that I first learned about them. I think Yeats is quoted more in other lite...
I’m doing some studying up on John Singer Sargent this month, for work-related purposes, and last week I was admiring Sargent’s 1908 drawing of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The, just ...
https://tinselcreation.com/2015/06/08/william-b-yeats-sesquicentennial/
This week I made a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Bluebell Wood, just in time to catch the bluebells before they start to fade away. This corner of the garden always reminds me of Mande...