by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
oday I’d like to showcase a book called A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, published in 2010 and winner of the Pulitzer. This book is really a study in form, I think. If you’re interested in the linked story approach to revealing events in a life, it...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
ne of Canada’s finest short story writers, Mavis Gallant, was an expat writer who lived in Paris for much of her writing life. She was born in Montreal in 1922 and died in Paris in 2014. Her father died when she was ten years old. Her mother remarried...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
riving. I have refrained from the litany of driving anxiety experiences, only because, well, even I didn’t want to dwell on them. But let us go to the violin lesson. DRIVINGFirst of all, you have to safely leave your parking spot in front of you house. Rue de la...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Sep 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
rt is in the air, literally and figuratively. L’arc de Triomphe has just been wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable silvery-blue polypropylene fabric and 3,000 meters of recyclable red polypropylene rope, following the vision of Christo and his partner...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Sep 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
t has been sobering and at the same time exhilarating to contemplate the sacrifice of a person who offered her life to fight against the Nazis, pledging herself to freedom. Arthur Magida’s recent column emphasized the aspirational aspect of Noor’s...