Brooke Palmieri

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• Posted No Culture But Horticulture to Phillyist
  I had the pleasure of attending the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show in the final of its 8-day run from the 4th to the 11th this past Sunday. I use pleasure in the most sensuous sense; walking into the Convention Center in the final throws of all its horticultural splendor, one is met by a kind of photosynthetic explosion with colors, fragrances, textures, palpable earthiness, and the sound of hundreds of other people expressing their feelings...
• Posted The Sunday Quinquagenarian: Part the Sixth to Phillyist
  This is not a book recommendation, it is a call to arms. A call to refinement of taste, veneration of the self, adornment of the body, a call for attentiveness to the peculiarities of form and detail to the fine citizens of the Greater Philadelphia Area. Title: Against Nature (Have a look at http://www.huysmans.org for a satisfying collection of Huysmans’ works of criticism & fiction in both French & English.) Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans First Edition...
• Posted The Sunday Quinquagenarian: Part the Fifth to Phillyist
  Title: Studies in Hysteria Authors: Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer Year: 1895 Now that the holidays are over and we can go back to our regularly scheduled leisure reading, now that Christmas Freud is unemployed in the window over at Barney’s in New York City and all of the alcohol left over from the New Year’s party has been polished off, psychoanalysis of the whole damn thing may seem a thing worthwhile. And so this...
• Posted The Sunday Quinquagenarian: Part the Fourth to Phillyist
  The perfect review as we approach Christmas, a book that says Communism Communism Communism now! Title: Man's Fate Author: Andre Malraux Year: 1933 (Winner of Prix Gouncourt) I bought the book scouring the M-section in fiction at the Last Word run by Larry, a really great used book shop run by a really nice guy with incredibly friendly (as they ought to be) cats, that has just moved to 40th street, between Locust and Walnut....
• Posted The Sunday Quinquagenarian: Part the Third to Phillyist
  The novella caught my eye because it was slim and guaranteed to be well-written; a promise somehow implicit in the surname “Mann”. And it is a charming thing to read: charming when you consider that the level of Indian legend you’re exposing yourself to is ultra-filtered from the sensibilities of a German, and then again through the translation of an American (H.T. Lowe-Porter. And because it is a piece of Indian cultural currency being passed onto us by a German, much more effort is put into successfully communicating exoticism.