The Foggy Eye

In 2024, as in 2023, I was happy to let the literary enthusiasms of others become my own. So a continued emphasis on contemporary French lit...

The New York Times recently featured an article counting down the 100 best best books of the century so far . They generated this list by s...

Resuming an interrupted tradition: the year's highlights, listed alphabetically, by author. With a pride of place given to 2023's re...

She's at his window, smoking. Her hair up. Wearing a simple dress, green, tight-fitting, showing a figure that would be the envy of many...

Together we came to the edge of the city, walked its streets, its avenues, carrying in our different ways the flame of life. We were learnin...

A few days after she left I ordered a tree planted in the barren space in front of my stoop. The city soon put there a "Greenspire...

Time a blur – but a couple weeks – Let’s say – after you left a Northern m ockingbird took up residence Outside t he window where you used t...

​​ April – May 2023   Dear Dad,           I thought I saw you on the subway today. You were standing halfway down the car, near one of the d...

Sitting again with you at the Django, waiting for Lucy and Grant to take the stage – our doppelgänger couple – you as from Day One the one f...

Sitting on the stoop last night around midnight, a warm night, or it had been, the wind now starting to blow, and a white BMW parked in fron...