Category Archives: The Arts

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