like flowers…

by Cathleen Schine on April 17, 2012

more Henri to existential French kitty…

by Cathleen Schine on April 15, 2012

ah, the French…kitties!!!!

by Cathleen Schine on April 12, 2012

The Beautiful Edith Wharton…and her dogs

by Cathleen Schine on March 12, 2012


Note the Cairn Terrier. Thank you, Elizabeth for Chihuahua on the shoulders picture, and pace Jonathan Franzen

Lurleen Across America

by Cathleen Schine on February 8, 2012

Lurleen Across America from Kirven Blount on Vimeo.

Elizabeth von Arnim

by Cathleen Schine on January 14, 2012

I just saw the first episode of season 2 of Downton Abbey and saw that the cowardly Moseley gave the loyal Anna a copy of “Elizabeth and her German Garden” by Elizabeth von Arnim. I first read Elizabeth von Arnim because an Italian friend suggested I read “All the Dogs of my Life,” her very tart and very merry memoir. Then I got to write the introduction to the New York Review Books edition of “The Enchanted April,” a book to read over and over. Especially when it’s raining. Flowers, Positano…

Alice in Bed is back…

December 31, 2011

Let’s see…it first came out in 1983…so Alice would be how old now? Nevermind…she’s still nineteen!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

December 31, 2011

Hello and a happy new year to everyone. As the most feeble blogger on record, I feel it incumbent upon even me to check in once before the end of 2011 and to post some pictures of a few of the places I visited in 2010/2011, in all of which I met the most wonderful

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hail insomnia

April 24, 2011

I am reading Otto Friedrich’s book on Glenn Gould. I am listening to the Goldberg Variations. There are advantages to not being able to fall asleep.

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Ron Charles, Sublime Book Nut

March 5, 2011

I met Ron Charles the Washington Post book reviewer at a wonderful Pen/Faulkner event. He introduce the panel (Elinor Lipman, who read a chapter from a work in progress that was stunningly good, Stephen MacCauley whose novel Insignificant Others I am now reading and loving and me who needs to lose 25 pounds). Ron Charles

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