I’m researching fifteenth-century Flanders. I’ve been reading a biography of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Philip cuts a fine…
H.P. Lovecraft was an American writer publishing in the 1920s and 1930s. His genre was, as he himself termed it,…
I’ve been fortunate to pick up, at the same time, two books by nineteenth-century novelists about the fifteenth century. I’ve…
It’s summer. I have reading time. I’m reading about the Middle Ages. One piece is a classic modern history of…
I was in Venice a few weeks ago, fortunate enough to stage two one-acts I’d written. It’s a marvellous place.…
A few weeks ago, I found myself in front of a restless group of eighth-graders at the local international school.…
In April we’re staging two of my one-acts. We’re in rehearsals, and show-time is approaching all too fast. It’s a…
“What a gift a man leaves the world who writes a good book!” writes W. Stead in 1886, in his…
I wanted to share an excerpt from the journal of the Goncourt Brothers. It’s a remarkable little paragraph for a…
This is one of the books I picked up last month in Amsterdam. During lunch breaks in my certification program,…