Category Archives: Literature
Found: A 160-year-old Book in a Local Coffee Shop
Near Stockholm’s elegant main library, I wandered into a coffee shop. The chain which has such shops all over town has a distinctive décor in that the walls, from tabletop level to the tall ceiling, have bookshelves filled with very … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Literary fiction, Literature, satire
Tagged Brobdingnag, Houyhnhnms, Laputa, Lilliput
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Hemingway in Paris
A friend recommended I read Hemingway’s A Movable Feast. The book consists of twenty vignettes, later-remembered stories of France where Hemingway was a poor, struggling writer during the years 1921 through 1926 and married to Hadley Richardson, his first wife. … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 