These Haiku-like poems represent nighttime thoughts and inspirations writtendown while reading Sam Hamill's translations in the Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa and Othe Poets. Some of them are actually based on the work of these poets, but most are simply inspired by them. Others come from the author's own musings.

An intellectually stimulating collection of other people's opinions, comments, and critiques of Paris. Chamberlin describes these snippets as "citations which illuminated one or another aspect of Parisian life and culture, or appealed to my sense of humor, however twisted this may seem to some readers." From the author of A Piece of Paris: The Grand XIVth; Paris Now and Then; and Kultur auf Trummern."

Author and intellect Brewster Chamberlin invites you along on his personal journey through the culturally rich landscapes of Greece and France. From the author of The Time in Tavel: An Informal Illustrated Memoir of a Sojourn in Provence; Paris Now and Then: Memoirs, Opinions, and a Companion to the City of Light for the Literate Traveler; and Mediterranean Sketches. Fictions, Memories and Metafictions. "Illuminating " says social commentator and art critic Hollis George.

Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work--and even image--continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer's life and times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log.

For more than a dozen years, Brewster Chamberlin "has been compiling and wonderfully annotating and continuously updating what amounts to almost a daybook calendar of Hemingway's life," as author Paul Hendrickson noted in his acclaimed Hemingway's Boat:...