Category Archives: PERSONAL ESSAYS

On Not Marrying

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Marriage has always held a place in the image of myself that seems so far away, I almost believe I will have to be a completely different person by the time it happens, the way a child must imagine herself … Continue reading →

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Word.

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Larissa Archer

A friend turned me on to The Believer magazine, which is now my bus and train reading. In the February issue, there’s a fascinating series of essays by transgender author T Cooper on different aspects of his transformation from female … Continue reading →

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Scared of Everything

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Larissa Archer

When I was a child I was scared of many things, all imaginary. I had a vintage Everyman Library edition of ghost stories that I tortured myself with at bedtime, and my parents foolishly allowed me to watch TV specials … Continue reading →

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On Spectacular Theatre

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Larissa Archer

A few years ago I attended the dress rehearsal of a production of The King and I at the Royal Albert Hall in London. For the most part, it was pleasant, although not being a regular musical theatre goer, I … Continue reading →

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Hell is Your People

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Larissa Archer

I got an invitation in the mail the other day to the annual “Russian Festival” at the San Francisco Russian Center, an event I attended regularly as a child. I remember tables of cherry pastries and pierogi, game stands where … Continue reading →

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Eonnagata, Théatre des Champs-Elysées

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Another piece I was lucky enough to see in Paris was Eonnagata, a collaborative dance/dramatic work by Robert Lepage, Sylvie Guillem, and Russell Maliphant, at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées. Now, I say lucky because I will happily see anything with … Continue reading →

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Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Larissa Archer

I managed to get a ticket to the New Year’s Eve performance at Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier of a modern triple-bill, the piece of most interest to me being Le Sacre du Printemps. Over the phone (at 35 centimes a … Continue reading →

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Presenting….

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Larissa Archer

Available Light The Photography of … By Larissa Archer Book Preview

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On the rechristening of Henry Miller’s Theater *update*

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Larissa Archer

(I posted this as a note on my facebook page and got some interesting comments; I’ve included them here in the comments section below) Sometimes I have to agree with Christopher Isherwood. There have been some stupid, crass, and embarrassing … Continue reading →

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Paris, comme il faut.

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Larissa Archer

under the great Parisian sky… La Colosse I write my postcards at Cafe de Flore. my favorite. With French-Syrian poet Maram al-Masri, whose latest book, Je Te Menace d’une Colombe Blanche, I translated for her recent American reading tour…9WNG58NR6QKK

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