Distressed Stucco
Wandering through the apartments of Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles, the late critic Robert Hughes noted how deeply architect Le Corbusier…
Los Angeles
Signs and Portents
Toward the end of my usual walk in Venice, I was confronted by a graffitied warning, on Hampton Drive: GET…
Ai Weiwei Sojourns in Venice
Last year, Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident, popped up in posters and graffiti throughout New York. Now he’s…
Boxes both Little and Big
It wasn’t an earthquake that left the wreckage on the left. It was a demolition crew. This former home, in…
The Ghosts of My City.
I wrote yesterday about Anaïs Nin and Rupert Pole: she, the last great voice of interwar expat Paris; he, my…
Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Harryette Mullen, a poet and UCLA English professor, does a lot of walking from her home in what I’m guessing…
An Hour at Skylight Books.
It has never been easy or instant to find the work of small publishers. Press runs are tiny, distribution is…
Robert Crosson, Daybooks (1983-1986) and thieving in Greece and Israel.
Read Robert Crosson’s Daybook, from Otis’s College’s Seismicity Press. Never heard of Crosson, which is reason enough to read the book….
Left Write & Centaur 