In this, my first Podcast episode on Substack, I share the story of the day I moved in with Claude—the beginning of nearly two decades of life, love, and literature together. A quiet origin story, told in memory and in words, with excerpts from Claude’s journal and the poem he wrote for me nine years later.
Read it here: Claude, Me, and the Journal: The Life I Lived—and Carry—Behind his Pages. . .
If this story moved you—if it reminded you of someone you love, or a life lived deeply—I hope you’ll share it.
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Thank you for listening—and for reading. And thank you for being here.
—Marc
[Image: Me, last summer, on a Zoom call in my office—once Claude’s. The shelves behind me still hold his books: mostly Greek & Latin classics, many of which he taught at Bennington.]
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