I have always been interested to see, up close, where writers worked and lived. Pablo Neruda’s house in Santiago, Chile, for instance, demonstrates his obsession with boats and the sea. All of the ceilings are low to the ground and the windows shaped like portholes. The house’s title “La Chascona,” comes from Neruda’s nickname for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Alexis'
A Fan in a Yankee’s Court: the Mark Twain House
February 4th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alexis · Connecticut · Hartford · Mark Twain · Travel
A Coney Island of the Cover Letter
November 26th, 2009 No Comments
If only getting a job was as easy as winning the Coney Island hot dog eating contest. In that case, I’d just have to empty my schedule, grease up my resume and down one cover letter after another all the way to victory. Considering the fact that I’ve sent more than 25 cover letters in [...]
Tags: Alexis · Coney Island · jobs
Boston Book Festival: Chris Van Allsburg
October 26th, 2009 No Comments
“When you’re younger, you’re more inclined to think you’ve seen a miracle. When you get older, you think you’ve been fooled. I like to not have to decide.” – CVA There aren’t many people in this world who could roust me from out of bed on a dreary Saturday morning and onto the T for [...]
Tags: Alexis · Boston Book Festival · Chris Van Allsburg
Bookstore Spotlight: Lorem Ipsum, Inman Square
October 16th, 2009 No Comments
It’s getting to that point in the year when any activity other than running from the T to class or huddling under a scratchy woolen blanket reading Solzhenitsyn requires a great deal of fortitude (and layers). Winter has arrived, and so begins the search for warm, inviting indoor spaces to pass away the hours. On [...]
Tags: Alexis · hipsters · Independent bookstores · Lorem Ipsum · slugs
Revisiting R.L. Stine
September 28th, 2009 3 Comments
In honor of Reading Rainbow week, I first had it in my head to write about an author whose books actually mattered. Someone whose stories are still beloved relics of my childhood. And in that case, you would be reading a long love letter to Roald Dahl. But then, Dan Brown had to shake things [...]
Tags: Alexis · Dan Brown · Reading Rainbow Week · RL Stine · Roald Dahl · Stephen King
Water World
September 8th, 2009 2 Comments
If anyone had looked for me yesterday around 1 pm, they would have found a shivering blue blob of exposed flesh floating in the Mirabella Pool in the North End, desperately trying to enjoy one last day of outdoor pools despite chilly gusts of wind, 60-degree temperatures and unheated water. Okay, so Boston can be [...]
Tags: Alexis · beach · Boston Confidential · Kevin Costner
I’m still here
August 29th, 2009 No Comments
To mark the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, today (credit here): I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ‘em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’– But I don’t care! I’m still here! – Langston [...]
Tags: Alexis · Hurricane Katrina · poetry
Read before watching
August 19th, 2009 No Comments
The last official performance I ever gave as an actress was in a French play called “Roberto Zucco,” directed by a short, spry goatee’d Parisian named Arthur Nauzyciel. Arthur was a special kind of director. He actually had us read the play.
Tags: Alexis · Arthur Nauzyciel · movie writing · Some Like It Hot · theater
Vampire Empire: “True Blood” deepens the obsession
August 12th, 2009 6 Comments
“If there’s one thing I hate about Santa Clara, it’s all the damn vampires.” – The Lost Boys, 1987 “If there’s one thing I love about HBO, it’s all the damn vampires.” – Me, TODAY When I was about six years old, my dad read Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to me as a bedtime story and [...]
Tags: Alexis · big screen/small screen week · Television · vampires
Should I be ashamed of my Moleskine?
July 21st, 2009 1 Comment
During an epic road trip through Texas and Louisiana last week, two disasters struck: I lost the journal I had been using for the last three months, and my manual camera fell apart. The camera was relegated for the rest of the trip to a permanent spot in the trunk, like an extremely delicate spare [...]
Tags: Alexis · David Emblidge · Travel · writing process