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  • My professional writer's site, with biographical info; links to selected essays and other published writing; reviews and comments; contact information.


  • My biography of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, published by Soft Skull Press in June 2006

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Who was Cassandra?


  • In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.

Book List

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2009

The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus

Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, Antigone, Sophocles

The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton

Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture, Vol. 1, Werner Jaeger

Fresco, Selected Poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku

The Demons, Heimito von Doderer

Philoctetes, Sophocles

Elektra, Sophocles

Iphegenia in Taurus, Elektra, Hippolytus, Euripides

En Relisant les Evangiles, Arnaud Desjardins

Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

His Excellency, a biography of George Washington, John Ellis

Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier

Other Colors, Orhan Pamuk

The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas

Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje

In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje

Troillus and Cressida, William Shakespeare

2008

Division of the Spoils, Paul Scott (Raj Quartet #4)

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa

Dragon Thunder: My Life With Chogyam Trungpa, Diana Mukpo

Poems of Paul Celan

Les Aurores Montreales, Monique Proulx

The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald

Essays on The Iliad, Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff

War Music, Christopher Logue

Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss

Un Grain de Sagesse, Arnaud Desjardins

The Places that Scare You, Pema Chodron

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan

Daughter of Persia, Sattareh Farman Farmaian

The Great Enigma, New Collected Poems, Tomas Transtromer

Pour une mort sans peur, Arnaud Desjardins

The Republic, Plato

Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hemon

Myth and Metamorphosis: A Study of Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930s, Lisa Florman

The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir

Metamorphoses, Ovid

The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy, Michael Baxandall

View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska (re-reading)

Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories, Italo Calvino

The Silent Cry, Dorothee Soelle

The Oresteia, Aeschylus

The Gift, Lewis Hyde