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One of my sisters once said that she recalled me, coming home to Grafton from the start of my new life as a university student, talking abou...

That’s a good question, and I thank you very much for asking it. On Saturday, 9 December 2006, my very first blog post asked a similar quest...

The 26-year-old would-be writer Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris in the summer of 1902. He soon started work on his future great pro...

A French photographer, Eugène Atget [1857-1927], produced a large series of fantastic photos of the working people of Paris around 1898. One...

To people who have read and admired Edmund de Waal 's family-history document, The Hare with Amber Eyes , my recent blog post entitled P...

This fabulous photo by Nikki Kahn [published in The Washington Post of 16 March 2010] has been labeled "Life goes on" . Why not?...

That pompous title sounds as if I'm dead and about to be buried. Not quite. I'm still kicking, more than ever... I've often evok...

For ages, I've imagined the idea of creating a movie adaptation of an enigmatic and beautiful book by Rainer Maria Rilke with a curious...

Yesterday, I finished the initial version, in English, of my movie adaptation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilk...

During my many years in the heart of Paris, I was mildly obsessed (I hesitated before using this word, but it's fairly accurate) by a gr...

The first time in my life that I tuned in exclusively to a single author, reading nothing else, was back in my adolescent Durrell days. Tota...

One of my female friends back in Paris was a prolific and eclectic writer. She had decided, a long time ago, to invest in a multi-volumed co...

I'm working intensely at present on the filmscript project based upon The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke . The...