Nomadics

Michael Hamburger, poet, translator (Hölderlin, Paul Celan, G.W Sebald), critic & memoirist died today.

In New York on my way to Europe. Yesterday feasted son Joseph for his birthday, and as we happened to be uptown where he and his mother signed in at the French consulate to...

The Prague International Writers’ Festival is in full swing today, with a big international reading tonight that includes Gary Snyder, A.B. Yehoshua and Pavel Reznicek. The festival, which started on saturday & goes on...

The rock in Crane Pond that wistfully dreams of being Moby Dick I feel wistful this morning. Or would, if I knew for sure what the word meant. And now, having woken up thinking...

Again, via signandsight, an interesting article on the future of print media, specifically our newspapers, by senior German philosopher and culture-broker Jürgen Habermas. Below the opening paragraphs, and here the link to the complete...

Two full days spent working on the long-overdue variorum edition of Paul Celan’s Meridian speech, thus no time or energy left to blog or do much of anything else except collapse in front of...

Today is Miles Davis‘ birthday: happy Miles-day, Miles (that’s my son, for whom, playing on European tradition, this is his saint’s day)! Today is also the 100th birthday of Marion Michael Morrison, a.k.a John...