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Perusing “Sport” and Considering Grantland Rice [by Johnny Chinnici]
I own plenty of baseball memorabilia, but most of it’s in storage. Here in my apartment I have a baseball signed by seven Hall of Famers; a Johnny Damon autograph; an old Ernie Banks…
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Elizabeth Bishop at Her Best [by Howard Nemerov]
Elizabeth Bishop has agreed to guest-edit an upcoming volume in The Best American Poetry series. "I've wanted to get her to do this since the series began," David Lehman, BAP's general editor, stated in a press…
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Fat Lady to Sing Soon for Tim McCarver [by Johnny Chinnici]
With the Dodgers headed to the next round of the playoffs— and the Yankees and Mets bruised–it’s hard not to imagine what NYC would feel like if the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Frank…
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Glen Baxter, a Soul in Torment: In Conversation with Bill Zavatsky at Poets House
A journey through the nightmare landscape of British artist Glen Baxter’s psyche, a world where cowboys collide with Rothkos and Mondrians, symbolically loaded motifs rear up and defeat interpretation, musketeers survey the smallest pizza,…
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Hump Day Roundup
A few items worth reading this week: War and Baked Beans by Robert Olmstead: (c) Jon McNaught Robert Olmstead, who has distinguished himself as an accomplished novelist, takes our breath away with this moving…
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“Happy Birthday, Natalie Shapero!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
NATALIE SHAPERO (10/9) Foot in boot and hand in glovea job a calling a chosen career-o today’s the day to send my love to NATALIE SHAPERO Craven maven raven and dovecatapult truck gondolier-o today’s…
