Katya ReimannNov 15, 20191 minLifeWilliam Merritt ChaseMy mother took this photograph of me and my Dad in 2016. We were visiting the William Merritt Chase exhibition at the Boston MFA. We got...
Katya ReimannNov 14, 20191 minAdministrationReconstructionI'll be moving things around structurally here on the page over the next week. It makes more sense to have my updates on the "Landing"...
Katya ReimannNov 6, 20193 minBookshelfFrances Carpenter, Distinguished FolkloristI am disgusted by Wikipedia's entry. Largely because I have been trying to find a book which I think is called Tales of a Persian...
Time & placeSometimes it's about when you read some piece of writing that it becomes totemic. Sometimes it's just the writing. "The past," he...
Life BookshelfIt's May. I've written these words before: 'I spend a lot of time thinking about books, writing, and what it means for an artist to have...
What mighty fraud diverts our souls from deeds of honor? No doubt I have made errors in transliteration, but here is a lovely piece by the Italian poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1728), as...