A Joy to Read

Kenneth Radu remembers New York while reading Ariela Freedman's Brooklyn-set A Joy To Be Hidden. 

Scottish Stones Part I, by Kenneth Radu

“I tell you. I fell in love with a tree. I couldn’t not. It was in blossom. It was a day like other days and I was on my way to work, walking the same way as usual between our house and the town” (Ali Smith).

Well, I fell in love with Scotland. I couldn’t not, although flowering trees had little to do with it. 

The Real Venice: Songs of Protest and Five-Star Hotels, II, by Marco LoVerso

The Cipriani Pool [Photo: Marco LoVerso]

Mind the Gap, part I, by Kenneth Radu

The old trains and their stations are marvels of intent and mystery. No wonder so many films make use of them.

King's Cross-St. Pancras, London