The fightin’ Vorticists!
Somehow I got picked to be on the team of Percy Wyndham Lewis, trailblazing artist and editor of BLAST. I learned very quickly that Percy didn’t like to be called … Continue reading
Memory believes before knowing remembers
In 1977, at just about this time in August, I hopped on a plane to London. (Elvis had just died.) It was going to be the fabled Junior Year Abroad, … Continue reading
It’s a bird…it’s a plane. Oh, it is a plane!
I was skimming familiar places on Google maps and came upon this weird, wild image of an airliner passing over Russell Square in London. Crazy, no? The scale makes it … Continue reading
The disappearance of Aphrodite
Don’t know why this came to mind again recently, but when I was doing my junior year of college in London, I took a class in French literature at the … Continue reading