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"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!

An Irish comic masterpiece of the kind I'm so good at (if I do say so myself): Killoyle Wine and Cheese / One, by @BoylanRoger

Wise words from Hermann Hesse.

Alain Delon taking Jane Birkin for a ride on his Harley-Davidson.

A 1973 Citroën DS23. The philosopher and critic Roland Barthes described it as "a modern-day equivalent of a Gothic cathedral—a supreme, passion-driven creation." Not sure I ever saw it that way, but I always admired it.

Sergio Leone shooting a scene with Henry Fonda on the set of "C’era una volta il west" ("Once Upon a Time in the West"), 1968. Initially skeptical, Roger Ebert eventually warmed up to the film, calling it "an unquestioned masterpiece."

Sigourney Weaver.

Marlene Dietrich contemplating the rebirth of her home town, Berlin.

White wine from Julian Haart vintners in the Mosel valley, Germany.

Audrey Hepburn.

Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks in "Foyle's War," excellent WW2 series.

A scene from Bergman's "Wild Strawberries," 1957.

The Milan-Geneva express passing the Château de Chillon at the east end of Lake Geneva/Léman.

Tippi Hedren accepts a light from a fellow cast member on Hitchcock's "The Birds," 1963.

Peter O'Toole as General Tanz in Anatole Litvak's "The Night of the Generals," 1967.

Morning coffee in Paris.

"Devil's Backbone" emerged from my brain a few decades after this photo was taken. And thirty years after "Killoyle." Here's hoping it's as good as I think it is. You never know.

"Adam's House" by Edward Hopper, 1928.

Every day, for a couple of years when I was a kid, a Peugeot 403 exactly like this, owned by a pleasant Swiss lady, would drive up to my house and whisk me away to school, and repeat the process at the end of the day. Soon I was old enough to brave the city's trolley system.

Author Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Ellis Island ferry, 1979, the year after he won the Nobel Prize.