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Found and Lost: Mittens
While confined
Vis our quarantine: I wrote the following short essay for Notting Hill Edition‘s newsletter as an introduction to a reprinted extract from FOUND AND LOST: Mittens, Miep and Shovelsful of Dirt: ‘Whilst quarantined with the symptoms of Coronavirus, I spend my days dozing, reading, streaming infotainment, writing, drinking coffee and savouring a single wedge of(…)
“…full of wry humor and quiet desolation…”- Review in TLS
From the April 20, 2018 issue of TLS Memoirs Alison Leslie Gold FOUND AND LOST Mittens, Miep, and shovelfuls of dirt* 180pp. Notting Hill Editions UK. £14.99. US edition $7.oo – $16.95. ISBN 978 1 910749 59 3 The Holocaust historian Alison Leslie Gold has made a career out of piecing together stories that might otherwise(…)
“Was I sleeping while the others suffered?”
“Was I sleeping while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon, my friend, at this place, until fall of night, I waited for Godot?” [from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett] [- see visual -Barry McGovern as Vladimir(…)
A review, an audio podcast, sick as a dog
[- Jan Steen, “The Sick Woman” 1665 -] I never get sick. I’d be the first to tell you that. But then, once in a blue moon, I do. Like now. Throat closed, frogs voice, sweaty, hot/cold, achy, sleepy, sleeping, sleepish. Sheets damp, new sheets, damp sheets. Its been this way for a week while,(…)
Letter to a dead friend. Promise kept.
Dear Lily, The memory of our long day together in 2009 in Athens remains lodged in my viscera. Though I’m not one for remembering dates, or years, or who wore what when, as you are/were, I am certain of the date because – after thirty-nine consecutive years of friendship – I never saw you alive(…)
Journey inside a terrarium
Train stations: Penn Station, Bath Spa Station, Waterloo Station, London Euston Station, St. Pancras Station, Gare du Nord Airports: JFK, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle Hotels: Annabelle’s Guest House, Fitzroy, Montague On The Gardens, Hotel Zora, Dolce Chantilly Book launched: Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep and Shovelfuls of Dirt Publisher: Notting Hill Editions, UK – www.nottinghilleditions.com –(…)
