I know that you will not remember me, but I will never forget you. Your features are etched indelibly in my mind, particularly your eyes. Not their shape or their color, but the fact that they were the saddest eyes I have ever seen.
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A Year in Reading
Both time and memory are central to my novel, Haunting Paris, where the ghost narrator measures time by a spectral clock, an unearthly calendar, and since we tend to read through the prism of our own preoccupations (okay, obsessions), that inevitably colored much of my reading and re-reading this year.
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Reflections — Siri Hustvedt
A conversation with Siri Hustvedt, author of Memories of the Future, about memory, imagination, and her portrait of the artist as a young woman.
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Reflections – Julia Phillips
A conversation with Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth, about her dreamlike debut year.
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Mozart and the Holocaust
During the darkest of times, music was a means of resistance and survival for those held in Nazi concentration camps.
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A Year In Reading
My first novel was finally published last summer, and it’s hardly surprising that the themes I grappled with during the long, long journey to publication should resonate in the books I read during the year.
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