Monthly Archives: September 2017

To Andalusia..

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

A slightly revised version of a dispatch originally posted in summer, 2011. Madrid, Barrio of Trafalgar, May 2011 It was Mahmoud Darwish, by his own personal and poetic admission a lover of Andalusia, who said about love—that love is either … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Bookstores

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

 ~~This is a re-post from 2013, when Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, was voted best bookstore in Boston in the A-list of Boston.  This morning, by chance, I found out that Harvard Book Store was voted best bookstore for 2017.  … Continue reading →

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Rough beauty…

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

Apples are ordinary; strawberries and figs are explicit; pears are restrained, even hesitant.  Watermelons, cantaloupes, and honeydew possess the self-consciousness of the corpulent.  But the peach is in a class by itself. On an August afternoon, a peach or two … Continue reading →

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