Audacious originality is an essential ingredient in the modern myth of the artist as hero. But even the most radical creations, alarming or disconcerting works that embody what critic Robert Hughes ...
Patricia Hampl pours coffee into pretty blue-and-white cups she bought in the Czech Republic, explaining that “those inexpensive teacups with the onion pattern are in every Czech home.” Hampl’s cheery ...
MOSt writers only allow themselves one. But Patricia Hampl is the queen of memoir. In “The Florist’s Daughter,” her fifth memoir, even the nurse who attends Hampl’s mother at her deathbed is a little ...
Patricia Hampl, you had me at your title: The Art of the Wasted Day. Imagine a book that celebrates daydreaming, that sees it not as a moral failing, but as an activity to be valued as an end in ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Patricia Hampl perches on a high stool at Nina’s Coffee Cafe on Selby, not far from her Cathedral Hill townhouse, and talks about how life surprised her. “If you had told me years ago we would be ...
Patricia Hampl, the memoirist and poet, will read from her works Tuesday at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Hampl, whose 1981 memoir, “A Romantic Education,” was about her Czech heritage, ...
"I loaf and invite my soul," wrote that most American of poets, Walt Whitman. He celebrated his prodigiously gifted, magnanimous, outsized self, and we continue to celebrate him. Yet we modern ...
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