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On Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” [by David Lehman]
Michel Houellebecq It could be because I have read the work of too many self-absorbed novelists who favor such sentences as these: "The next day I got up early and shut myself in the…
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On leaving, Austerlitz, destiny, prophecy & the Great Wheel
When I get to sobbing out “Look at me, curse you all!”, when I get all squinty about the eyes, when I get to reproaching life’s way in the grayness of the long-drawn shadows…
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Discoveries from The Yearbook V [by M. Fitzgerald]
Simeon’s Osby’s name, on the other hand, brought up a wealth of intriguing information from the genealogical site. He was born on May 15 1909. In the 1920 census, he is listed as the…
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Discoveries from The Yearbook IV [by M. Fitzgerald]
When it occurred to me that I could look up the names of Donald Hogan, Simeon Osby and Thelma Donnigan on the genealogical site I subscribe to, I hesitated for some time: although I…
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Discoveries from The Yearbook III [by M. Fitzgerald]
Those three photographs nagged at me. The single girl, Thelma. The two boys, Donald and Simeon. Those young faces. Simeon smiles, looking sideways from the camera. But Donald and Thelma look straight at the…
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Discoveries from a Yearbook Part II [by M Fitzgerald]
It was a while before I returned to The Capitoline. By then, I had been on…
