Albert Camus | Albert Camus
Mar.05.2013
We walk to the corner where I know we will part, where you will launch like a new shoot for its own possibilities, 800 kilometres away.
Through the air and across mountains we will trek, for our next enrichment of dinner and wine.
I walk a step in front of you, my head stooped to the dark pavement...
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Nov.15.2012
Having just finished the second draft of the third full-length play I’ve written in the last 2 years, I am wondering about the direction I am going in as a dramatist. I have a long history of working in the theatre as a director, playwright and adaptor, and my preferences are pretty much set...
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Oct.15.2012
Recently I found myself on the verge of crossing over from ambivalence into guilt due to the amount of time and creative energy devoted this year to online journalism and other forms of prose-writing as opposed to a more luxurious immersion into the rich flow of poem-making. There were actually at...
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Oct.12.2012
Discovered this quote, from Albert Camus, in a recent collection of Geoff Dyer's essays:
"...a man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
That one unhinged my jaw.
Any...
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Jun.18.2010
Oh Albert Camus, can you teach me about death and God?
You left me alone reading 'The Stranger,' sitting there in my pathetic way, weary and heavy-headed. Death is nothing short of a crippling fear for me, but you say it so simply and gracefully: Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. It's funny, too, ...
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Apr.05.2010
There's a big 3-day international Camus conference -- CAMUS NOW -- coming up later this week, Thursday through Saturday, April 8-10th at NYU's Maison Française on Washington Mews (at University Place) with keynote by Jean Daniel, an old friend of Camus's, fellow Algerian, and editor of Le Nouvel...
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Feb.07.2010
Crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet runs a weekly feature asking authors to write about a "forgotten" book that merits new attention. This last week the blog's editor asked me to suggest a book. I wrote about Georges Simenon's "The Saint-Fiacre Affair" (aka "Maigret Goes Home...
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Jan.04.2010
It has been astonishing, distressing, amusing and gratifying to follow the commotion in France over Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus, who was killed in a car crash at 46, with reburial in the Pantheon. Astonishing to find Camus being so...
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Dec.03.2009
I would like to attend.
Pennsylvania Bar Session Focuses On Literature And The Law
PBI has planned a seminar titled The Law and Literature: Why Thinking like a Storyteller and not a Lawyer Will Help You Win Jury Trials. The event is being held Monday, December 7, at the PBI CLE Conference...
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Nov.22.2009
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Camus’s death in January, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to honor him with a resting place in the Pantheon where great writers like Voltaire and Rousseau and Victor Hugo already lie. Those buried in the Pantheon are called the “immortals.” This is a great...
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