Charles Green Shaw

"Born and raised in New York City, Charles G. Shaw (1892-1974) graduated from Yale University in 1914 and then studied architecture for one year at Columbia University. In years following, he traveled throughout Europe as a freelance writer and became a regular of the cafe society that populated such cultural capitals as Paris, London, and New York in the 1920s. In addition to publishing several books in and on this era, Shaw was a frequent contributor...

A little dog listens to the indoor and outdoor sounds of winter: sneezes, branches rattling against the window, the crackling of a fire in the fireplace, and the tinkling of iced tree branches.