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January 2025

With Baudelaire in Brussels, #11
The poet is irritated by the local station master and a tour guide. He sees where the Marquess of Anglesey lost his leg.
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #10
A field trip to see where the Battle of Waterloo took place
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #09
In which we are introduced to his pet bat
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The Obolus Press profiled in this month's New Criterion
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December 2024

November 2024

Dancing in 1920s Germany
Isadora Duncan, godmother of the nudie bar?
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #08
Quails are served. Baudelaire continues to denigrate the Belgians. We meet his chambermaid.
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #07
The poet and his guest discuss omelettes and air travel.
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #06
Baudelaire invites Barral to his room for lunch; he has some unkind things to say about Belgian cooking and coffee.
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October 2024

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