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In Remembrance of Tanks
The tank at Dargov war memorial. I'm guessing little boys no longer climb it for photo shoots. Another Thanksgiving is over and tanks won’t be haunting me for at least another year. Every year the...
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Praha My Prague: A Micro-Memoir
This is a reprint of a guest post I wrote for Czechmate Diary. Enjoy! *** “I’ve been to Prague,” is the most frequent response I hear when I tell Americans I’m from Slovakia (“Where is that?” and...
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In Memoriam Václav Havel
Vaclav Havel walking on the beach near Cabo de Roca, Sintra, Portugal, 1990. Photo by Tomki Nemec If you define a hero as someone who performs deeds which you cannot imagine yourself perform and which...
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Václav
Tribute to Václav Havel by Peter Sís, who kindly permitted me to publish the picture and who told me, 'It'll take a while for us to comprehend whom we lost in him.' The post Václav appeared first on...
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The Freedom of the Birds: An Interview With Petr Sís
Petr Sis speaking at Powell's City of Books, Portland, Oregon, 11/21/2011Following up on my review of Peter Sís’s new book “The Conference of the Birds” and our conversation at his reading here in...
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Portland, Central Europe
Central Europe came to Portland, Oregon, last week. In the span of five days, from Friday, April 27th, to Tuesday, May Day, I experienced at least 7 Central European countries and Russia without...
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Home in Two Places: An Interview with Olinka Broadfoot
"Siblings" by Olinka Broadfoot I discovered the Prague-born artist and Portland, Oregon, resident Olinka Broadfoot about two years ago at a new gallery in SE Portland. Being an artistically-inclined...
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It’s “Banned Books Week” in America. Let’s read!
It’s middle of the Banned Books Week, “the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read.” Throughout the country, “[h]undreds of libraries and bookstores draw attention to the...
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