Rolling Stone reports that Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson has burned down. My grandfather John Dos Passos stayed there in 1948 with Dawn Powell and the Given family, at a low point in his life when he was seeking peace. He painted it beautifully, too (see image). Powell wrote, “This is a very easy place to feel at home in immediately–largely because it simply has no connection with anything or anyplace else in the world. Even Traveler Passos says so.”