Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • Dianaworld: An Obsession

    by Edward White

    Diana once snuck out in male drag to go to the Royal Vauxhall, a famous London gay bar, with Freddie Mercury.

  • Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

    Vivo Performing Arts (Symphony Hall)

    Víkingur Ólafsson takes a bow

  • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

    by Mark Doty

    “Isn’t that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?”

  • Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America’s Gay Restaurants

    by Erik Piepenburg

    “I think there’s a real thirst for younger generations to have those kinds of spaces. I think as younger generations maybe look to gay restaurants or gay cafes as possible meeting places, I think that’s also going to bring up interest in the past when those kinds of places were everywhere, at least in gay neighborhoods and also in small towns and medium sized cities as well.”

  • Borromeo String Quartet

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    Borromeo String Quartet takes a bow

  • Stereophonic

    by David Adjmi / Music by Will Butler (Emerson Colonial Theatre)

    Curtain call at Stereophonic

  • You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It

    by Lisa Rinna

    “The thing about grief is it makes people very uncomfortable. In part because it reminds them of mortality.”

  • The Invention of Morel

    by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    “The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”

  • The City and the Pillar

    by Gore Vidal

    “Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”

  • In Praise of Shadows

    by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

    “The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”