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Penelope Rowlands

@penrowl

Writer!

In and out of NYC...,

Author of Dash of Daring, Paris Was Ours, & other books.  Essayist / Journalist.  Now -- yikes! -- trying to get two new projects out the door...

12 Posts

  1. Never stop writing!

    I was lucky enough to be #Paris correspondent for #MiltonEsterow 's @artnews back in the 1990s. What an impressive figure! Somehow I'm not surprised that he's still writing away, now for the @nytimes ...
  2. Once again, ratings savage democracy. Thanks a heap, CNN.
  3. The Man of the Hour!

    “I know there are probably some in there that think I betrayed them, but I ...I’m going to vote it how I see it. And if they don’t like it, go away.” - #Nebraska state senator #MerveRiepe , age 80, voting against a proposed near-total #abortion ban. (Quoted in @washingtonpost)
  4. Yes!
  5. A novelist debuts, amazingly...

    One of the great moments in U.S. #publishing history is now on display at Firestone Library, #Princeton . It consists of a book cover, shown recto & verso. No blurbs, no quotes. Just the text from this then unknown #novelist 's publishing debut, and a full-bleed photo of her on
  6. Pelosi on fire!

    Former Speaker of the House #NancyPelosi had a chat with #PaulKrugman last evening and she was #BADASS ! Absolutely in charge, tranquil as the occasional screaming protester was hauled out. Modest each time the audience rose shrieking in #adulation . Krugman, #gentleman -like, let it
  7. Every now and then an article bring tears to your eyes, and this is one... (Check out that last sentence!)
  8. Gorgeous Joyce DiDonato master class, Princeton

    "Listen with ears that are on edge!" mezzo-soprano JoyceDiDonato exhorted two young singers at her stunning master class given at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, last p.m. Besides her coaching -- kind, generous, and on-target -- this goddess fit in some fun, affection
  9. "The Super 8 Years" = superb

    I was privileged to see "The Super 8 Years," the #film/memoir by #Nobel laureate #AnnieErnaux and her son DavidErnaux-Briot, last evening... Subtle, beautiful, melancholic, profound A small #masterpiece
  10. Kiefer at Gagosian!

    Stopped in to see the amazing #AnselmKiefer 's "Exodus" #exhibition at @ Gagosian Friends had raved about it to me. I'm so glad they did! Please, please run to see it? It's only up through tomorrow PS
  11. New book review!

    My book review of the new biography of landscape architect Bunny Mellon has just been posted on The American Scholar's website . What a fascinating subject -- and life, with its jagged twists and turns.
  12. Hello

    I'm posting here for the first time after fleeing the other site, which has imploded (at the very least). Hello to everyone I know on this site, as well as those I don't. Looking forward to seeing w

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