Exile on Pain Street

Six months later and still in France your host tries to make sense of his situation: Refugee? Exile? Retiree? Plus a conversation about the writing life with novelist Todd London whose new book was published just as the Coronavirus shut the world down

Back to School

When your host dropped off his kid at school in France, the child pulled him aside and whispered, “Please, papa – don’t speak! This way no-one will know you can’t parle francais…”

So Benjamen is finally taking French classes.

A Eulogy For Writing

Thanks to the coronavirus, Todd London never got a chance to do a reading from his new book — until now!! Todd a section from If You See Him, Let Me Know about celebrating a president’s demise!