Works Produced at Arion Press

On the satire of competing garden styles in Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.


On M. F. K. Fisher’s translation of the classic The Physiology of Taste by Brillat Savarin


On Victorian buildings in New York depicted by Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence, photographed by Stephen Shore.


Introductory essay for The Nachman Stories by Leonard Michaels.


Hotel Chelsea

Selected Works

On Architecture
The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron Thames & Hudson 2005
The design process of architects Herzog and de Meuron for their award winning de Young Museum. “A fine book about design” --Robert Campbell, Boston Globe
On Historic Gardens
Le Désert de Retz: A Late Eighteenth Century French Folly Garden, the Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville. With photographs by Michael Kenna MIT Press 1994
A history of this rediscovered masterpiece of French 18th century architecture and landscape art.
The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art (contributor) University of California Press 2003
“A richly illustrated history of the garden as shaped and experienced by artists.” --New York Times Book Review
On Writers
Selected Articles on Writers
Articles on Henry Roth, Tom Stoppard, M. F. K. Fisher, E. M. Forster, Jessica Mitford, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Jefferson, and others.
At Arion Press
Work Published at Arion Press
Introductory essays to work by Leonard Michaels, Tom Stoppard, Brillat Savarin, and Edith Wharton.

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