The Eastside View

 Epen, February 28 , 2012— T HIS HAS BEEN  a particularly nice stay, the last couple or three days in our beloved Netherlands — as always, I...

Epen, February 28, 2012 On yesterday's ramble through the fields along the river Geul we came upon a poem engraved on a tablet set out i...

Epen, Feb. 27,2012— W E VISITED AN ACQUAINTANCE yesterday in her twostorey brick bungalow set among oaks, beeches, and birches in a semirur...

Puiflijk, February 26—   I QUIT SMOKING in 1968, after sixteen years of mostly pipe-smoking. It wasn't too hard, though I'd been a ...

In flight, February 23, 2011— T HIRTY IN THE New World, including two in Baja California. Twenty-six, I think, in Europe; seven in the Pa...

My Valentine, on her 76th birthday in Venice (photo: Francesca Źivny) Eastside Road, February 14, 2012— I DON'T CARE what Pope Paul VI ...

Marco Pannucio (Gatsby), Susannah Biller (Daisy), Julienne Walker (Jordan), Jason Detweiler (Nick), Daniel Snyder (Tom) (photo: Steve DiBart...

Eastside Road, January 29, 2012— Lindsey on the trail O N THE ROAD AGAIN , as you see. The last week of January is so often a beautiful fals...

A S I KNOW I' VE mentioned before — ah yes; here it is — my instrument in high school was the noble bassoon — partly because as a yo...

For a little project I've been working on I turned to the remarkable story of the ashes of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian novelist ...

Eastside Road, January 9, 2012— A LMOST EXACTLY TWO YEARS ago I posted an incomplete blog here. I was reminded of it today, when I got to th...

So many books read this last year, so few of them commented on here. End-of-year reflections will haunt me for the next seven weeks, I'm...

Looking at what you've just done, the critics ask what's in it for them , for their immediate entertainment or information; and may...

Pasadena, December 17— M Y FAVORITE OF ALL Shakespeare plays — I know, it's a ridiculous formulation — is Twelfth Night . It has some ...

Wow: Googling around while relaxing in that twenty minutes before bedtime I find this: Se Reich e' l'Haydn del minimalismo, Adams ne...

Berkeley, December 2, 2011— S ITTING IN A CAFÉ over a cappuccino I have no time to write here properly, but I want to call attention to an ...

For no particular reason I recalled this little poem this morning: Charles and Lindsey Engage in Dialectic Grizzly bear and mountain lion at...

Eastside Road, November 7, 2011— A FEW DAYS AGO friends came to dinner and to discuss a little project we're working on together; I don...

Palo Alto, November 2, 2011– Extraordinarily rewarding, finally moving performance here last night of Merce Cunningham's Nearly Ninety2,...

Eastside Road, October 29, 2011— I T'S TOO LATE to tell you about it; the show closed today; but the work of Gordon Cook has found its ...