An Outsider Publisher, by Linda Leith

Dennis Johnson of Melville House Books, who sees himself as an outsider, is critical of the mainstream of American publishing. He's one of the more original voices in contemporary publishing.

Van Gogh and Maggs: A Visit to the National Gallery, by Linda Leith

Van Gogh's “starry, starry night” is the night of mega-stardom. Our view of his art is inevitably coloured by his celebrity.

Vincent van Gogh Almond Blossom, 1890 
Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92 cm
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

"I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement" -- Graham Greene

This is the kind of man that young men of my generation and perhaps a younger generation must have wanted to be, especially young men who wanted to write.

Graham Greene, The Comedians (NY: Viking, 1965) is available from Abebooks.

Letter from Guatemala, by Guy Tiphane

Salvador Dali's images of The Divine Comedy in Antigua, Guatemala

Canto 13: The Wood of the Suicides: 
“Look well, for here one sees things which in words would be incredible.