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Bravo! This show was sui generis, I've never encountered something like it. Something for bibliophiles as well as theater folks...and anyone who likes the experimental. 8 hours of bliss. The book is the only script. Consider seeing it when it's back in NYC or on Monday if in 'Abu Dubai'. You'll leave thinking about how the characters in your life and the characters in the books you read interplay, among other things. 🎷🎺👐🏻👐🏿 "He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." - #fscottfitzgerald #gatz #thegreatgatsby #theater #nyuad #nyuadarts #jazzage #bookshelf #amreading #jaygatsby #americanliterature #bookworm #nyc #elevatorrepairservice #abudhabi #uae #experimentalart #performance #literature #american #literaryquotes #simplyabudhabi

New poem on @postscriptmag (link in bio) ✍🏻 This is another poem in the same series as the pyrenées poem exploring male complicity in regard to women’s subjugation, rape, and sometimes, death at the hands of other men. This second poem draws together the defiance of the overlooked biblical heroine, Vashti, and the recent tragic murder of student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa. #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #writersofinstagram #feminism #biblicalhistory #women #womensupportingwomen #metoo #history #poets #samanthaneugebauer #vashti #mollietibbetts #postscriptmagazine #abudhabi #uae #zagros #moutains

October by Maurice Denis, borrowed from the Musée d'Orsay, for the Louvre Abu Dhabi's exhibit on 'Japonese Connections: The Birth of Modern Décor', which traces the history of 'Japonism' in the west after Japan ceased its self-isolation in 1853. #meijiera 🇦🇪🇫🇷🇯🇵🍁🍂 'October' is part of a series of panels following the development of a girl's love...& that curled cat is very Japanese, right, Murakami?! #symbolism #arthistory #mauricedenis #louvreabudhabi #museedorsay #japanese #japonism #october #abudhabi #uae #museo #museums #eastasia #murakami 🍁

"It was perfectly possible to become the prisoner of an artist's vision, I said. Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again. But there have been other paintings, I said...when he wrote his book it was the desire to be free of shame that drove him on." #rachelcusk and #wislawaszymborska #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #amreading #artistsoninstagram #writingcommunity #womenempowerment #ploughshares #polishwriters #englishwriters #transit #killshame #literary #mosaic 🌿 I don't know

"I had come to England, aged five, with my parents and sister in April 1960, to the town of Guildford, Surrey...when I look back at this period, and remember it was less than twenty years from the end of a world war in which the Japanese had been their bitter enemies, I'm amazed by the openness and instinctive generosity with which our family was accepted by this ordinary English community." So hopeful and inspiring! #kazuoishiguro #allarewelcome #england #japan #amreading #literaryquotes #greatspeeches #nobelprize #lectures #writerscommunity #japaneseliterature #britishliterature #ishiguro #makeamericagreatagain #immigrantstories #kindness #history

Second in the trilogy! "The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel, to ourselves and others, because we believe that ultimately we have no value." #rachelcusk #transit #amreading #bookshelf #bookstagram #abudhabi #uae #cusk #fiction #outline #trilogy #tea #fleurs 🌸

New #fiction #shortstory on #postscriptmagazine (link in bio @postscriptmag) 🌿 Check out all the pieces in the #heartbreak issue! #writersofinstagram #identity #women #samanthaneugebauer #friendshipstory #love #thebreakofday #trees #nature #amreading #amwriting #storytelling #narrative #readersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram

Eyes in the Heat 🔆🔅👁#jacksonpollock in #venezia #throwbackthursday _______________________ #americanart #paintings #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #drippainting #artistsofinstagram #peggiguggenheim #hats #hat #eyesintheheat #soundsinthegrass #americanabroad #eyes #arthistory #candid

#shinhanga 🎨🌿 “In the late 19th century, the woodblock print industry in Japan was undergoing significant changes...giving rise to an art movement known as shin hanga.” #🇯🇵 #woodblockprint #japaneseart #artistsoninstagram #japan #日本 #thewellscollection #amreading #bookstagram #bookshelf #artbooks #eastasia ✨

🎶🎶 “Such as watching an Oyster Dance—where a naked woman on a small stage danced alone to piano music. The best was Olivia the Oyster Dancer who would place a raw oyster on her forehead and lean back and shimmy it down all over her body without ever dropping it. The oyster would crisscross and move finally down to her instep. Then she would kick it high into the air and would catch it on her forehead and begin again.” Reminds me a bit of Salma Hayek’s mesmerizing dance in From Dusk Till Dawn 🔅🔆🔅 #michaelondaatje #comingthroughslaughter #amreading #jazz #storyville #ondaatje #neworleans #dance #oysters #fromdusktilldawn #uae #abudhabi #taxi #bookshelf #fiction

“As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition – I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another: in fact, if I read something I admired I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.” A woman who does not post books on social media, perhaps. #cusk #outline #rachelcusk #outlinetrilogy #kudos #transit #literature #blackcoffee #abudhabi #uae #bookshelf #amreading #bookstagram 🌿

New #poem in the next issue of @postscriptmag (link in bio)🌿 Inspired after learning of the geoglyph Marree Man while in central Australia. #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #roadtrip #australia #marreeman #naturalwonder #poets #poetry #samanthaneugebauer #stuarthighway #outback #thebush #roadtrips #abudhabi #uae “Postscript Magazine is a literary & journalistic collective formed in Paris, France, with a global team of writers.” #postscript #postscriptmagazine

Bronte Beach with the newlyweds @kcapoots & Billy 🌊☀️ Named like my favorite British sisters without the diacritic. 🔅🔆 #australia #beaches #bronte #brontebeach #brontë #pacificocean #ocean #blues #bigsky #sydneyaustralia #nyualumni

Gumnuts of the Eucalypti, like stone roses or the sarcophagi of secrets. “I’m just interested in exploring the apparatus I’m being threaded through...” -#robertsmithson #trees #nature #australia #fruit #gumtree #gumnut #exploring amateur #naturalist #naturalista #eucalyptus #appreciating #americanartist (Fun fact- In NJ, apparently, Smithson’s doctor was William Carlos Williams!) 🌿🌿🌿

After a botanical ramble, the latest from Ondaatje, his first in seven years. Ondaatje’s donnée—abandoned places and people, espionage, and the sensory manifestations of loss are all present. “She had spoken to us of Asia and the ends of the earth as if they were distant boroughs of London...she weighed character, could discover it in a few grains of a person, even in one’s noncommittal silence. [She told us] your own story is just one, and perhaps not the important one. The self is not the principle thing.” #ondaatje #warlight #melbourne #amreading #bookshelf #theenglishpatient #wwII #coffee #royalbotanicgardens #gardens #bookstagram #writersofinstagram #poetrycommunity #michaelondaatje #srilanka #canada

My dad loved trains, and so do I. The Ghan Train, originally known as the Afghan Express, is the power behind a historical train and exploration route, beginning with Afghani camel riders. From Darjeeling to Sri Lanka to the Americas, the history of trains reveals the history of the world too in many ways. 🚂🐫 #history #trains #trainhistory #alicesprings #australia #camels #explorers #desert #steamtrain #adelaide to #darwin #historylover #trainride 🌿#theghan #ghantrain #ghantrainline #fatherlikedaughter

Valley of the Winds. From perhaps the greatest living short story writer, “My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.” #rickbass #australia #hiking #theoutback #thebush #valley #valleyofthewinds #aboriginalland #nature #literaryquote #literature #amreading #amwalking #morninghike #earlybird 🌼

#climbing #kingscanyon This earth sculpted from history of a bygone ocean, black bird skulls, a jellyfish fresco, and red longing like the landscape of my heart. 🏜 #hiking #thebush #canyon #bellissimo #joiedevivre #theoutback #australia #峡谷 #camping #americanexpat #morningbird 🔸

#camping #circleoffriends in the Northern Territory, soon with our swag (sleeping bags for our sleeping bags). ⛺️🌤 ‘Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.’ #maryoliver #americanpoet #sleepingoutside #australia #camp #sunset #trees #thebush #northernterritory #thewild #wintersunlight

Coober Pedy, where over 75% of the population lives in homes underground as their primary residence. Also, the opal headquarters of the world. ☀️☀️ #thebush #australia #opal #cooberpedy #desert #homesofinstagram #camping #explore #nature #opalfield #roadtrip #littlevan #friendsontheroad #americanexpat #homes #theoutback #roadside

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