Category Archives: The Arts

Four Generations of Women

Maternal Great Grandmother
My maternal great grandmother (Riga, Latvia)
My Maternal Grandmother
My Maternal Grandmother (Riga, Latvia)
My Mother
My Mother (Riga, Latvia)
Me
Me (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Aspects of My Father

My father in a studio in Riga, Latvia.
My father as a young man in a studio in Riga, Latvia.
My father among friends in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
My father as a middle-aged man, among friends in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
My father with his family in a Soho pub in London, England. (Photo: Ilse Munro)
My father as an older man with his family in a Soho pub in London, England. (Photo: Ilse Munro)

Errata

Salman Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students.
Salman Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students.

“So my subject changed, was no longer a search for lost time, had become the way in which we remake the past to suit our present purposes, using memory as our tool.”

Salman Rushdie, Errata: or, Unreliable Narration in Midnight’s Children, 1983

Magnificent Reason

Barrack in Dolinka
A barrack in Dolinka, a village at the center of the gulag system in Kazakhstan. (Source: Reuters)

“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.”

Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, 2006