Two days ago in the Berry region of France, I gleefully played George Sand. In this game of pretend, my lover Frederick Chopin has just…
Photo by artist Michael McCarthy Friends! My blog now has a new subscription service and I would be grateful if you’d take a moment…
In November I made the decision to quit my job but it wasn’t until February that the negotiations around my departure began in earnest. Unfortunately…
Friends! After several months of intense reconstructive surgery, my website is now back on-line thanks to exceptional webmasters Ernesto Buttafoco and Annabelle Adie. Please have…
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“Most of the characters in the ten stories making up this collection are profoundly alone, usually in a foreign, adopted city. They aren’t exactly lost,…
Native Californian Anne Marsella‘s debut novel Remedy (Portobello Books) is set in a Pariscape peopled by odd, intriguing, and enthusiastic characters. The resulting novel is more than…
In Anne Marsella’s* warm and funny The Baby of Belleville, hierarchy is put to rest, making room for an all-inclusive Paris, a Paris where equal time…
Bringing together artists, musicians and writers I like makes me particularly happy. I’ve had the idea for quite some time to start a salon and…