Feuilleton

Pronounced roughly "foo-yeah-ton," almost rhymes with "skeleton."

The word comes from the French feuillet (meaning a "little leaf" or sheet of paper), which derives from the Latin folium (leaf).

In nineteenth-century French newspapers, a horizontal line ran across the bottom of the front page. Everything above it was news. Everything below it was the feuilleton: devoted to literature, art criticism, cultural essays, light-hearted gossip, and serialized fiction.

Here you will find short-form work that is meant to provoke a thought or a feeling rather than make an argument: prose and verse, music, visual arts, mostly by me and occasionally by people I admire enough to share. Nothing here is a position paper. Some of it is finished and some of it is not. Read it the way the original was read, without agenda and with time to spare.