A Postcard From Europe
June, 2009
AN ACCLAIMED CROATIAN NOVELIST FEELS HOPE DESPITE THE FISSURES OPENING AS THE ECONOMY SINKSI'd be hard-pressed to claim that Europe is coming apart at the seams. All I know is that a friend of mine, a Dutch playwright, decided to put aside his career and embrace the recession with a sober mind. He opened a how-to-survive-the-recession advice center. He has no complaints except that his job transition, he says, sounds like a bad joke.Another Dutch friend of mine, a journalist, lost her job. She t...
