PinnedStewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter One: The Map“Noh?” the elderly woman behind the glass asked me. At least, I think it was a question. It lacked a certain tone that would be familiar to…Jan 19Jan 19
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Epilogue: The End of the BeginningI’d known my fiancée for years, but we’d only started dating three years earlier. The wedding was today, at the end of July, the hottest…May 19May 19
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-Six: The One-Man ShowChThere was a movie from 1987 that I absolutely fell in love with, “Roxanne”, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. A modern-day Cyrano…May 17May 17
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-Five: The Tales From Estonia“Dad, what was Estonia like when you came here?” my daughter asked me a week before the wedding. She had asked me this before, and I had…May 15May 15
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-Four: The Cause and the Effect“How was it?” Mall asked when she came through my apartment’s front door late Sunday night, after the Song Festival had ended.May 13May 13
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-Three: The FallAfter having been a comedian for only one year, I set off to Denmark, the second-largest city, Aarhus, for a week-long comedy festival…May 11May 11
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-Two: The RiseChapter Forty-The resounding success of our first night of comedy in Tartu led to our organizing not one, but two nights of shows on a…May 9May 9
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty-One: The BonfireEarly that Saturday morning I heard Mall get up to go to the Song Festival. I had stayed up late the night before, desperate to figure…May 7May 7
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Forty: The WarI had somehow graduated from going to my first funeral(s) as an adult, to organizing my first funeral(s). As an adult, too, no less. I…May 5May 5
Stewart Johnson“Tales From Estonia” Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Comedy in EstoniaFor two years I had struggled to accept what had happened to Q-Tip. The official story filed by the police and backed up by the coroner…May 3May 3
