Goodbye Isabella de la Houssaye
by Carl Kruse Some four years ago the New York Times wrote an article about my badass classmate Isabella de la Houssaye who was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and […]
Whoredom, Harlots and Promiscuity in the 21st Century
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come […]
How Hollywood Ate The World
by Hazell Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog ‘Death to Hollywood’ – J.M. Keynes This is how John Trumpbour’s book, Selling Hollywood to the World, begins, and so it […]
A Quick Peek At London
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have been traveling back and forth from London very regularly these last few months. London, situated in the southeast of […]
English As She Is Spoke
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Halfway through the nineteenth century, a little book appeared in Paris under the title of O Novo Guia da Conversação em Portuguez […]
Norway: Washing The City From Me
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog We had landed, and it was night. A fine mist was shrouding the land, and all I could see was empty […]
Carlo Gesualdo – Renaissance Composer + More
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The Late Renaissance composer enjoyed a rebirth of interest in the early twentieth century, some three hundred years after his death, with […]
There is an Award For The Worst Intro Paragraph to a Novel
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse BlogEvery year, writers from around the world submit their entries to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; the prize is a pittance, but the winner […]
The Fate of Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince was published on the 6th of April 1943. Whatever happened during the past 80 years […]
My Grandfather Arrived to the USA 100 Years Ago Today
by Carl Kruse Exactly 100 years ago today my grandfather arrived to Ellis Island, New York, having left 12 days earlier from Hamburg on a ship called “THURINGIA.” He was […]
A Quick Trip to Cahors
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog My mamie is a tiny woman. No one knows why she’s so very small, but some have suggested that her mother […]