Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
Marcel Proust
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Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Story
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
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Proust as Antidote for Smartphone-Induced Attention Deficit
Confession: I have never read Proust. Not one word, let alone the 4,300 pages of them in the English translation of his seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past). On the occasion of the French author’s 145th birthday, LitHub invited six authors to sing his praises, and explain why his work […]
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Mortal Enemy, Immortal Ally: How Writers Measure Time
Time carried back to the future, once again seen and understood as it was in antiquity, not only as mortal enemy but also as immortal ally. The counterrevolution against the autocratic regime of uniform, global time (commercially and politically imperialist) was pressed forward by many of the artists and writers of Einstein’s generation unwilling to […]