The Eastside View

Venice, June 18, 2011— A N OLD GUY , apparently shakier than he looks, sits down on the bench to take off his shoes. There seems to be some ...

Venice, June 14, 2011— A N INTERESTING CONVERSATION yesterday with the proprietor of a glass shop on Murano. Another couple was in the sho...

Venice, June 9, 2011— A DAY REMARKABLE for its conversations, flawed by one futility. We set out pretty early on a fine morning, the water...

Venice, June 9, 2011— W ELL, YES, some of you are kind enough to wonder: but what are you actually doing there in Venice? Fair enough: here...

Venice, June 8, 2011— O NE MORE NOTE on the subject of loss: the rhinoceros is gone. We first saw it the day after we arrived, a couple of ...

Venice, June 8, 2011— W E DO NOT TRAVEL unmindful of what I refer to as the Principle of Redistribution of Wealth, which in less generous m...

Venice, June 6, 2011— W E WERE ENTERTAINED last night by quite a lusty thunderstorm, which came on fast, lingered a while, and then moved o...

Venice, June 5, 2011— W E WERE AWAKENED at six o'clock this morning by the bells in the church, just outside our window, striking the h...

Treppo Carnica, June 4, 2011— I T DOESN'T REALLY MATTER where in this world we go (though of course we're relatively choosy about w...

Treppo Carnica, June 3, 2011— V ENICE IS JAMMED at the moment; the apartment we've taken for the month had been previously rented for t...

Venice, May 31, 2011— A S MENTIONED THE OTHER day, we were at first not allowed to go out the second gate from our apartment here, which wa...

Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 30, 2011— A MONG THE OTHER changes in this town, changes to be expected given human mortality and the...

Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 27, 2011— B ECAUSE OF WRESTLING with Italian, French is momentarily away from my brain, and I can...

Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 26, 2011— T HERE'S A LOT of stuff in this town: bricks, stones, tiles, glass, more trees than you...