Ebb and Flow

Writing woes, the Monet-Mitchell exhibition, and Yann Tiersen on the Metro.

View of the Monet-Mitchell exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Photo by Joel Saget.

I spent the first half of this week in the grip of a mini-bout of writer’s block. For me, this does not mean that I didn’t have any ideas, or even that I couldn’t write at all, but rather that I could not seem to work on the thing I really needed to work o…