Winter Rain

When he came up out of the ground, he hunched his shoulders and ran into the rain (it was all in his face) across the street to a bar. “A double.”  He looked at his watch.  He sat on the edge of the stool, more standing than sitting, took two quick sips, looked...

Gentle, stylish, astonishing

Check this one out. It’s a car ad, and it’s running in Japan only.    It raises the issues we’ve been talking about here—the beauty of men and of women, the range of possibilities before us which may or may not include sex, the essential need for surprise, a...

The Pictures

Since 1982 I have taken many hundreds of pictures of the sites in which these three novels have been placed–Cardiff, Maine, a fictional version of Bangor, Maine, Commercial Street and Race Point in Provincetown, and Christopher Street in the West Village in New...