Here’s something silly for a Friday afternoon: I was reading about still life painting (again!) and came across some compositions by French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Chardin painted in various genres […]
The term that led some anonymous seeker to my site: margaret atwood sex plums exploding That sounds exciting! I’ve definitely written about plums before, and Margaret Atwood does write some […]
“The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked […]
This week at Table Matters, I have a piece up about vanitas paintings, particular those that involve food, and how they try to have it both ways: these beautiful, sumptous, […]
In the summer, we tend to reach for lighter fare. Fruits, salads…. detective fiction? On the surface, murder and mystery is an odd choice for beach reading. On the other […]
It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]
