The Eastside View

“ D EATH JUST MEANS YOU'RE NOT INVOLVED ANY MORE. —Wendell Berry ”

•Célestine Vaita: Breadfruit . New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2006 ISBN 978-0-316-01658-2 •Célestine Vaita: Frangipani . New Yo...

•David Bellos: Is that a fish in your ear? Translation and the meaning of everything. New York: Faber and Faber, 2011; 978-0-86547-857-2 for...

T HIS IS HOW I like to remember Robert Erickson; he looked very much like this, as I recall, when I first met him, in 1963 or so. He was th...

Photo: Jim Shere, 2012 Eastside Road, June 21, 2014— I   HAD HOPED to report here on a fine road trip we have just taken, four thousand mil...

WE'VE BEEN ON the road for nearly two weeks, and blogging has suffered — both here and over at Eating Every Day. Most of my jotting has ...

With profound thanks to Bhishma Xenotechnites ( Finished for now, and constructive comments welcomed below —) ( Well, then, here's the ...

• Nina Raine: Tribes Beth: Anita Carey Billy: James Caverly Daniel: Dan Clegg Sylvia: Christine Albright Ruth: Elizabeth Morton Christopher...

P ERSONAL NOTE first: I named this blog in a hurry, as one often names things, but with little or no subsequent regret. I live on Eastside ...

I MAKE NO APOLOGIES for spending time on Facebook, where I "follow" a great many "friends" (and, of course, family) sca...

Installation photograph, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, through July 27, 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Cald...

•Molière: Tartuffe , translated by Richard Wilbur. In repertory through May 24 •Shakespeare: Macbeth. In repertory through May 11 •William I...