The Eastside View

•Bhishma Xenotechnites: Monochord Matters: or, The Power of Harmonia. . Online here at http://shere.org/Leedy/MonochordMatters.pdf; 19 pag...

•Charles Simić: A Fly in the Soup. . Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 182 pages. ISBN 978-0472-08909-9. Eastside Road, January ...

•Daniel Klein: Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life. . New York: The Penguin Group, 2012. 164 pa...

•Anya von Bremzen: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: a memoir of food & longing. . New York: Broadway Books, 2013. 350 pages. ISBN 9...

•Cheryl Strayed: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. . New York: Vintage Books, 2013. 336 pages. ISBN 978-0307-476074. Eas...

•Robert Walser: The Walk. . Translated by Christopher Middleton with Susan Bernofsky. New York: New Directions, 2012. 89 pages. ISBN 978-08...

•Toma Longinović: Moment of Silence. . San Francisco: Burning Books, 1990. 134 pages. ISBN 093605008-X. Portland, January 10, 2015— ...

•Charles Seife: Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea. . New York: The Penguin Group, 2000. 247 pages. ISBN 978-0140-29647-1. Portland, J...

•Juan José Saer: Nothing Nobody Never . Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. London and New York: Serpent's Tale, 1993 ISBN 218 pa...

Eastside Road, December 22, 2014— L OOKING BACK OVER the year, as I do the week before Christmas most years, I find a forgotten poem writte...

Why I read Peter Schjedal, in the New Yorker: "Sculpture is the hardest art. Unlike diffidently wall-mounted painting, it intrudes on a...

•Keith Haring: The Political Line.   Through February 16, 2015. •Lines on the Horizon:   Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collecti...

•Jean Coqt: Skagen . ISBN 978-0-990-75880-8 •Jean Coqt: Tarifa . ISBN 978-0-990-75881-5 Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2014 Eastside Road, December ...

•Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 . The Library of America, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59853-309-5 Edited and with notes and chronology by Ti...

If I had to do it again and it was the best thing about it is not the same thing to say The fact I can get it right away with the best of th...

I T WAS A FELLOW employee at the Berkeley Post Office, Gary Jerburg I think his name was — this was after all sixty years ago — who introdu...

Eastside Road, November 8, 2014— J UST WHEN I THOUGHT there was no particular reason to write any more music — in July, 2004, to be precis...

Cardona di Alfano Natta, October 28, 2014— Siamo uccelli di passagio , I explained to Gabriella last night at dinner, we're migratory bi...

our building, Via Principe Tommaso   WE CAME HERE to Torino to atttend the Salone del Gusto, an international fair celebrating food and its ...