Tag Archives: Greece

Greece: A Memoir; Part 2: First Contact

(This is an excerpt of a memoir-in-progress of my life in Greece.) I first entered Greece in the summer of 1976.  It was the culmination of a grand hitchhiking arc I had made through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Yugoslavia.  … Continue reading

Posted in Greece: A Memoir, Travel | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey 1937-47 by Edmund Keeley

Just before World War 2 a number of writers and poets came together in friendship in Greece and formed a group which included Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, George Seferis, George Katsimbalis, and other Greek literary figures.  Henry Miller writes about … Continue reading

Posted in Book Reviews, On Writing, Travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Treasure Hunt: Searching For Books in Thessaloniki

I’m a bookaholic.  I gotta have my books.  I can’t stand being without books.  And when I say books I mean the paper kind with binding and covers and so on.  I did, to be honest, at my wife’s prompting, … Continue reading

Posted in On Writing, Reading | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Greece: A Memoir; Part 1: Introduction

(This is an excerpt of a memoir-in-progress of my life in Greece.) For years I have had a fantasy of getting hold of a camper somehow and traveling around Greece and writing about the experience.  In my mind it was … Continue reading

Posted in Greece: A Memoir | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

It is a measure of the worth of this book that I begin writing the review before I have even finished it.  It is also a measure of the length.  It is over 850 pages of small print.  When I … Continue reading

Posted in Book Reviews, Travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment