Flogging Babel

. Wow. In less than two weeks, I'll be back in Ireland! Wandering the desolate beauty of the Burren. Discovering the Ring of Kerr...

. Saturday I went to New York City for a memorial in the honor of Carol Emshwiller. I will not enumerate who was there and what trans...

. Pictured above is Marianne's swallowtail farm on the front porch. She didn't set out to raise butterflies. But it turns ou...

. This is one of the saddest images in the entire book. Caitlin did not have a happy childhood. Which is why it's hardly ever refe...

. This glitterati life! I've been signing tip-in sheets for an unannounced future project. It sounds glamorous. But five reams  o...

. If I were an organized man, I would have carefully saved all my favorite footnotes in a series of notebooks and be well on my way to...

. There are all kinds of interesting projects simmering away on a variety of metaphoric stoves. None of which I can talk about yet. ...