by jkvincent | Nov 6, 2023 | novels |
Louis Martin-Chauffier (1894-1980) I just read the most delightful letter from Marcel Proust. [1] He wrote it two years before his death, in January of 1920, to the twenty-five-year-old archivist, paleographer, and aspiring novelist Louis Martin-Chauffier....
by jkvincent | Nov 5, 2023 | novels |
Suzuki Shintarō in 1925, age 30, just before his departure for France. As I wrote in an earlier blog entry, last summer I paid a long-overdue visit to J. Theodore Johnson, Jr. a favorite professor...
by jkvincent | Nov 3, 2023 | novels |
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Untitled (Cathedral) Irregularly shaped blue and white tie-dyed paper, with text from Proust, against blue textile backing. 15 x 25. Date unknown. Photo by Kevin Ryan) Posted by permission of Hal Sedgwick. It’s a straight shot north from Tulsa,...
