The Eastside View

Apeldoorn, October 31— T OO SHORT A STAY at I Mandorli early this week, sharing its pleasures with our friends Richard and Marta; but this ...

I Mandorli, Cardona di Alfiano Natta, October 28— W E FLY THIRD CLASS , excuse me, "Coach." Though I stand six feet tall my legs a...

L AST WEEK I WROTE about Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan , forgetting to steer you to an interesting online review here . Then last ...

F OR SOME TIME NOW I've wanted to write about a fascinating book read last month, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: the Impac...

LAST MONTH, CASTING ABOUT for a book to read while visiting in Portland I picked up an early novel by Luigi Pirandello, whose short stories...

W ATCHING THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE tonight, and thinking about it afterward, I suddenly begin to think it's possible McCain doesn't ...

F LARF IS A WORD new to me; I found it yesterday, in the course of reading further, among the many comments posted to Ron Silliman's bl...

I have written a new poem, as follows: An ardent point Supernatural as a point, more supernatural than evolution Natural as an organism, mor...

L AST WEEK IN P ORTLAND we attended three events in PICA's Time-Based Art festival . PICA is the Portland Institute for Contemporary Ar...

L ISTENING TO CAGE , by way of his Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras , made me think to check out Feldman, so I went to E-Music to download...

Portland— W E SAW SEVEN PLAYS in six days last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, only once having to squeeze in two perfor...

A S MANY OF YOU KNOW , I spent ten days in June and most of July walking from Evian-les-Bains to Nice with my grandson Henry and my friend K...

Portland— T WO DIFFICULT TRAGEDIES — difficult from the point of view of successful production, I mean, not posing intellectual difficultie...

Portland— W E ENDED OUR WEEK at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland with an aftenoon performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream , ...

Ashland, Oregon— S ATURDAY: TWO PLAYS yet to see, one of them a Midsummer Night's Dream to which I don't quite look forward, havin...

photo: Henry Shere P RELIMINARY STATISTICS , slightly revised: Elevation change: 51,300 meters, roughly, or about 167,000 feet, which is abo...

A TENTATIVE LISTING of the meals (chiefly dinners) eaten during our Long Walk, June 20-July 28, and the week or so following while on vaca...

W E WALKED INTO THE SEA yesterday, ending our long walk across the French Alps. Well, not really, of course; the boots have been too good t...

Well we are here in Nice, but not quite: we haven't really finished the walk. Increasingly we find it hard to find a bed; and after 20 m...

W ELL, WE DIDN'T GET FAR today. It's hot and a little humid and I think somehow being down here in a valley instead of up there in ...