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SAXON HENRY

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Category: Creative Writing

Entries filed under the Creative Writing category are pieces that are less reportage and more essayistic pieces I’ve composed. Though varied in their subject matter, each of them is a deeper exploration that many of the pieces I produce from my travels or as a way to explore literary design encounters. There is a building variety of them featured below, such as an exploration of New Journalism through the lens of one May Day when I was having a mani/pedi in New York City while the throngs of marching workers passed by the salon.

 

Another found me in a spot on a high bald in the Appalachians feeling the grief of nature’s decline while feeling the beauty of her surroundings. I explore my fascination with Django Reinhardt in “Hail Django, Gypsy of Jazz,” and I share my response to one of the most syncopated beach masses I’ve ever celebrated! I feel echoes back in time when combing through Edith Wharton’s papers at Yale, and I record my feelings about an experience I had on the Sioux reservations in South Dakota. I hope you enjoy these pieces, as they are closest to my heart!

The reading room of the Bibliothèque Mazarine
Architecture Creative Writing Travel

Libraries Are My Temples

Saxon Henry February 19, 2020 architectural storytellingBaroque EraEmotionality of ArchitectureFrancelibrariesLouis XIVParisroyal palaces

This essay about the legacy of Cardinal Mazarin, which includes several libraries, is included in my book The Modern Salonnière. The 34 other essays in…

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Painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Books Creative Writing Literature

The Emperor’s Displeasure

Saxon Henry December 16, 2019 famous writersFranceNapoleonnovelistsParissalonniere

This essay about Napoléon’s displeasure with Germaine de Staël is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière. The 34 other essays in the book…

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medieval personality exudes from Castel Monastero
Creative Writing Cultural Explorations Travel

The Personality of Place

Saxon Henry April 20, 2018 famous writersFlorencehistoric castlesItalykeeping diariesMichelangelonobilitypoetryRenaissanceRomesalonniereThe Literary Adventurer

So, this is how it feels to experience a medieval Tuscan village that has existed on a hillside in some form for almost 1000 years!…

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Eudora Welty at her writing desk
Creative Writing Travel

Eudora Welty Finds Her Voice

Saxon Henry January 16, 2018 famous writersFranceMadame de SevignememoirsNew York CitynovelistsParisRoyal CourtiersThe Literary Adventurerwriting desks

When a writer begins to grapple with how to mine the outside world for inspiration, the process can be challenging. In her memoir, One Writer’s…

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Sally Potter and Pablo Veron tango on the seine
Creative Writing Cultural Explorations Films

The Architecture of Tango

Saxon Henry September 15, 2016 actors and actressesauthenticityFranceParispopular moviessalonniereThe Literary Adventurer

I envy the pencil being held carefully between her fingers, the rasping sound the sharpener makes as a thin layer of wood peels away from…

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Classical and Modern architecture meet at Yale
Architecture Creative Writing Literature

Touching Literary History

Saxon Henry September 7, 2016 American poetsdead poets societyfamous writerskeeping diarieslibrariesmemoirsnonfiction writersnovelistsParisPetrarchpoetrysalonniereThe Literary AdventurerYale University

I will once again be touching literary history soon, as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University reopened yesterday following a 16-month…

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