[Drawings by Sharon Frost.]
On the F train in Brooklyn. Do not lean on door. Almost everyone on the subway is attached to a phone these days. |
My Spanish in Brooklyn (at Idlewild), with profesor Lalo Pavez. For the last few months we’ve been tackling subtleties of the subjunctive. We don’t have the subjunctive in English, though we express the same mood in other ways: the sequence of verbs is a confusing tangle either way. Spanish goes from the simple (que tengan un buen día) to the dizzyingly complex (si Ingmar Bergman hubiera sido un gaucho ¿que tipo de pelis habría hecho? |
New windows open a new world in Brooklyn. |
Looking at fútbol (Barcelona) in our Brooklyn living room, with Javaka Steptoe’s Radiant Child (Steptoe’s brilliant children’s book about Jean Michel Basquiat. Luminous illustrations — yes, radiant book. |
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