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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Novel Cafe

December 11, 2024
Tags: cairo, novel, cafe, amusement park, sign, money

More Mahfouz

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, novel, bookstore, books, mall, modernity

The Cultural Salon

November 13, 2024
Tags: cairo, restaurant, novel, Egypt, Nobel Prize
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The Spaces of Novels

December 26, 2020
Tags: London, novel, space, story, business, personal, covid19
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Pamphlets and Qasidas

February 16, 2019
Tags: Senegal, books, novel, poetry, shop, bookstore, Internet, education
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The Place of the Strike

January 30, 2019
Tags: Senegal, laborers, class, Marxism, railway, industrialism, novel
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The Very Fence

November 27, 2017
Tags: novel, mississippi, children, story, sign
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Mormons on the Mississippi

November 22, 2017
Tags: mississippi, mormons, novel, American West, theater

Humans from Someplace Besides New York

April 26, 2016
Tags: africa, New York, novel, city