KATYA REIMANN ◦ WRITER & ARTIST

Lego Circa 1981

This photo has been circulating on the Internet since at least 2013, when someone first sent it to me, along with the caption, "Before...

Katya Reimann

Feb 28, 20201 min read

One of my favorite artists is John Singer Sargent, who is best known, perhaps, for his society paintings. "Portrait of Madame X,"...

Katya Reimann

Feb 26, 20202 min read

As I clear my desk & toss old envelopes... Comical dog in lifejacket, ~2015

Katya Reimann

Feb 4, 20201 min read

If you are told that such a one speaks ill of you, make no excuses against what was said, but answer, "He was ignorant of my other...

Katya Reimann

Feb 1, 20201 min read

Sometimes it's about when you read some piece of writing that it becomes totemic. Sometimes it's just the writing. "The past," he...

It'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...

No doubt I have made errors in transliteration, but here is a lovely piece by the Italian poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1728), as...