Rusalka

Rusalka (Русалка) from 1968 by Russian artist Konstantin Vasiliev [Source: Wikipedia]

Eleanor Wachtel interviews Mavis Gallant

Listen to Eleanor Wachtel interview Mavis Gallant on Writers & Company at the CBC’s Paris studio.
At 86, Mavis Gallant’s mind is as quick and engaged as ever. Her memory, like her writing, boasts a remarkable precision, an attention to detail that goes back to her days as a journalist for the Montreal Standard.
Although she maintains [...]

My First Earthquake: New Chanukah Song

Short skirt, warm jacket — a new Chanukah song by My First Earthquake. Download the MP3: http://tinyurl.com/45wpys Directed by Eric Slatkin, starring Rebecca & Dave from My First Earthquake.

Merry Christmas, JoAnn!

This Christmas I am giving you a pied-à-terre. True to form with all my construction projects, it isn’t finished yet. I hope it never is.
I will help you make a house key for yourself at wordpress.com so you can move right on in and make of it whatever you wish. I look forward to working [...]

Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas

A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn’t speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest Hemingway called Paris “a moveable feast”—a city [...]

Yael Naim – New Soul & Paris (Live)

Yael Naim – New Soul & Paris Live

“Like Kissing the Sea… On the Lips”

Rowan Jacobsen considers Penn Cove oysters (left) to be the sexiest shellfish he’s ever eaten. They come from Washington state and perennially win the annual Most Beautiful Oyster Contest at Elliott’s Oyster House at Pier 56 in Seattle. “They … get bountiful and succulent, and they have this gleam to them as they sit in [...]

Whose Life Is It, After All?

Bob Dylan w ith Suze Rotolo in the Columbia Records studio in 1962. [Source: dylandreams]
Suze Rotolo was the girl on Dylan’s arm on the album cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. She became his girlfriend when she was 17 and he was 20. Their tempestuous affair became the stuff o f his songs, and Dylan [...]