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Monthly Archives: May 2017
At Oscar Wilde’s Grave
Originally posted on Passages Home Blog:
The grave of Oscar Wilde, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris On this hot, humid day, with the possibility of a storm lurking not too far, we–Bob and I–made it to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. After…
The Valise–a family memoir
~~”The Valise” was published in the fall 2011 issue of American Literary Review. Since then, the publication has gone digital, and the essay is not available in print or on the ALR website. You can read it … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cities and towns, Languages and readings, Ordinary places, Palestinians, Those we Love
Tagged Abdelrahman Munif, American Literary Review, Amman, Araxi Oshagan, Armenian Genocide, Armenians, Boursa, Erzurum, expulsion from Palestine, Family chronicle, family memoir, Hagop Oshagan, Jerusalem, Mnatsortats, refugees, Remnants (Mnatsortats), western Armenian literature
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Final notes on “The Promise”
~~In The Promise, the Armenian genocide has at last been made into a big, feature-length movie with huge ambitions: to join the company of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Such a Hollywood epic, the argument goes, would raise … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenian Genocide, genocide films, representations of the genocide, The Promise
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“The Three Complaints of My Mother” in “Solstice”
~~An essay of mine, “The Three Complaints of My Mother,” is in the Spring issue of “Solstice.” It took almost a decade to find a literary home for this essay, despite all the praise heaped on it by editors many … Continue reading
Mothers’ Day for all seasons…
Originally posted on Passages Home Blog:
At my local grocery this morning, the flower scene was in full bloom, so to speak. Flowers everywhere–tossed on the check out counter, held by shoppers, pinned on chests. So many flowers, in…
In the Balkans 2: Montenegro
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Montenegro–from Asbed Kotchikian’s photos of his travels through the Balkans. Kotor ? Budva
In the Balkans: Sarejevo, Dubrovnik, Ljubljana
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Old Sarajevo Occasionally, I post photographs from friends who are traveling in distant lands or who have evocative images close to home. This May, my friend Asbed Kotchikian was driving through the Balkans, all…
Promises, promises: preliminary notes on “The Promise.”
~PROMISES, PROMISES~ I, too, saw The Promise. Here are my comments in response to the rhetoric and sloganeering that has surrounded this movie since its release: 1. Our story… Is this “our story”? An ambitious man from the villages goes … Continue reading
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