by Philip Caputo | Jan 6, 2021 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
About 25 years ago, I started to study Stoicism, the philosophy founded in Athens in the 3d century B.C. by the Greek thinker, Zeno of Citium, developed by his pupils, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, and carried on during the first and second centuries A.D. by Romans like...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 1, 2021 | Journal of a Plague Year
We celebrated the welcome demise of 2020 in a manner befitting a plague year — all dressed up with nowhere to go. But we had a good time all by ourselves: martinis before dinner, a fine old vine Zin with filet mignon and roast potatoes, followed by dancing to...
by Philip Caputo | Nov 27, 2020 | Book News
Click on this link or copy and paste the below in your browser to see the New York Times’s mention of the paperback edition of HUNTER’S...
by Philip Caputo | Nov 18, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year
I haven’t posted for several weeks for a couple of reasons: one, until two weeks ago, I was busy finishing the first draft of a new novel, an effort that left me too mentally depleted to write so much as a shopping list; two, I was recovering from a concussion...
by Philip Caputo | Oct 9, 2020 | News
We here in Connecticut are learning to live with Covid19. While the virus is not our friend, we seem to have reached some sort of rapprochement with it. Most the state’s citizens wear masks in public places and observe social distancing mandates, without feeling...
by Philip Caputo | Sep 30, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year
No Covid news today, but I have a suggestion: To prevent the next presidential debate (if there is one) from becoming a mudbath like last night’s, President Trump should be fitted with a shock collar, similar to the kind used to train and discipline dogs. A...
by Philip Caputo | Sep 13, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year
Warm, clear, and breezy, Friday was very much like THE September 11 of nineteen years ago, and seemed an appropriate day to commemorate the dead. Leslie and I sailed out to Green’s Ledge lighthouse in her little sloop, Reveille, with her sister, Jennifer, our...
by Philip Caputo | Aug 31, 2020 | News
I recently received an email from someone who had read “The Longest Road”, the book I published several years ago describing an overland voyage Leslie and I made from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean. The purpose of that...
by Philip Caputo | Aug 31, 2020 | News
The family vacation and the road trip — two American institutions — are attended by a certain tension during this year of pandemic. Will the people at the next gas station or convenience store, in the next town or state, be wearing masks and practicing...
by Philip Caputo | Jul 16, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
A post office delivery driver rang the doorbell at a little past nine this morning. In her hands was a cardboard box with the return address for the Edwin Bennett Funeral Home in Scarsdale, N.Y. and a sticker that read, in small type, United States Postal Service, and...
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