Prince of Minor Writers: Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm (2015) New York Review of Books.

"There's nothing easier than to be an incendiary. All one needs is a box of matches and a sense of beauty."

Sir Max Beerbohm by Jacques-Emile Blanche (1903)

Ashmoleon Museum of Art and Archeology

One does wish for more of this incisive writing in these days of glib shallowness and over-hopped IPA.

The last of everything has been sent to Publisher. The American Slave Coast goes to print tomorrow. Books in warehouse sometime in September. Published October 1.

 My eyes are dry and itchy. A headache which insists my head is simultaneously falling off and exploding. Sick to my stomach. My left hip is in so much pain I got about 3 hours of sleep. My lower back is screaming.  My neck can't turn. Every part of my body aches.  El V surely feels even worse.