Category Archives: europe

The Debt Of A Nation

In 2011 Madame Ambassador phoned with the offer to be her ‘unofficial writer in residence’ at her posting in Mittel Europa and she asked, “Do you have an evening suit?” “Of course,” I replied without hesitation from my apartment in Fort Greene. “Good, because you’ll be needing it. There will be plenty of balls and […]

NIGHT PORTER

The Third Reich had disappeared in 1945, but the images of its death camp horrors have gripped the imagination of filmmakers and holocaust survivors beyond the death of Hitler, but in 1974 Italian director Liliana Cavani explored the reincarnated sadomasochistic relationship between a SS officer and her concentration camp sex slave played by Charlotte Rampling. […]

ADDI LUXEMBOURG on Kindle

In the autumn of 2011 and winter of 2012 I was appointed the writer-in-residence to a foreign embassy in Luxembourg. The small duchy was in the center of Europe. I had lived on the continent during the 1980s. It was good to be back there again. Here’s a small sample of this booklet. On a […]

Dawn Along The Petrusse

Last Sunday dawn rose fast on the City of Luxembourg. Only two days before I had arrived with the sun’s first light on the flight from London and jet lag prevented my sleeping till noon. It was 1AM back in New York. Madame Ambassador was in her bedroom. No other human was in the embassy. […]

Luxembourg 1988

During the 80s Iceland Air had one of the cheapest flights from New York to Europe. Maybe $300 with a stop-over in Reyjarvik. I took them several times and here’s a photo of the Luxembourg Gorge from 1988. It hasn’t changed much, but the Iceland flights were dropped in 1999. Nothing stays the same. Other […]