Adams, Robert. Why People Photograph. New York: Aperture, 1994.
Last summer, on the way to Colorado, I drove U.S. 50 across Nevada. Friends had murmured sounds of disdain and warned me. “What a lonely road.” But it wasn’t until I was well past Fernley that I came upon the official-looking highway sign, “The Loneliest […]
The fat, neon-colored beetle of a bus bumped along the narrow highway as I struggled to keep from falling into my neighbor’s lap. The Indonesian guidebook warned there wasn’t a straight stretch of road on the island of Flores, crumpled as it was by its many volcanoes, and I was ready to believe it.
I had […]
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Dorothy Sayers invented the urbane, elegant detective Lord Peter Wimsey, and some scholars of the British detective novel claim she was in love with her creation. I find this easy to believe since many female readers become smitten with Wimsey’s charm. […]