Two Angels, Caring for Each Other's Souls
On Flávio Juan Núñez, the mirror of Fabián Cháirez, and a friendship that outlived desire — long before Gen Z decided celibacy was a movement
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August in Paris: A Comedy of Errors (For My Ear)
In which our heroine seeks a doctor, finds four, and gains nothing but a tragic new expertise in French holiday schedules
Lifer
For Lyssa Horn, on the fifth of August — thirty-six years of gurneys, mini cars, and Thanksgiving in Montmartre
THE WINDOWS a memory of Stephen de Pietri, in reels
New York — Moscow — Beijing — Paris — Sicily 1980 – 2014
The Garden Apartment
On John Rynski, and the New York that made us
THE GIRL WITH THE MAGAZINE
On Giorgia Cantarini — a friendship staged like a Fellini carnival, lit like a Visconti twilight
The Girl Who Wanted to Own Me
Linda H, a Bauhaus boutique, stolen clothes, and the particular cruelty of women who confuse desire with possession
Gates of Hell
Dispatches from the Theater of the Absurd: An Airport Odyssey
The Witch’s Brew
On love, dying men, and the mystic who spoke to monkeys
The City That Never Let Me Go
A Cyber Visit to My Old Hometown — On Friendship, Basketball, and Finding Joy at the End of the World
Mini DV, Moon in Scorpio
Hyères, Disciple Films, Fashioned Out, Easy Pieces, and a surprise 50th in Paris