Monthly Archives: September 2018

September 2018. You won’t be going to this little place unless you happen to be staying in a particular Palermo neighbourhood, but it’s probably emblematic of several hundred such bistros in this fascinating city. First day in town, we walked … Continue reading →

Ellsberg, Daniel. The Doomsday Machine. Bloomsbury, New York 2017. NF;9/18 Ellsberg is now 87 and still going strong. There is no question that he is an anti-war and anti-nuclear extremist, but he is very well-informed and has been near enough … Continue reading →

Rooney, Sally. Conversations With Friends. Faber & Faber, London, 2017. F; 9/18. Mixed feelings, mostly positive. I was hooked by an excerpt that appeared in Granta from Rooney’s latest novel Normal People. The characters were interesting and that later novel … Continue reading →

September 2018. We were searching for a good steak house in this famously-foodie town for our second night after a lovely meal at Ava Jean’s, a highly-recommended Italiano place. This was the one that still had reservations available at a … Continue reading →

September 2018. This Italian spot was recommended in review websites, and we chose it as one of a couple of destinations on a weekend in this famously groovy town. The Uber ride over was like something in Latin America or … Continue reading →

Wink, Callan. Dog Run Moon. Penguin Random Houjse, New York, 2016. F;8/18. Following my pattern of picking up published works of writers when their short fiction I’ve run across in a periodical looks good, I started this short story collection … Continue reading →