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Now hear this: Jimmy Van Heusen was born 100 years ago [by David Lehman]
and has been dead for twenty-three years but his songs are as timeless as "Darn That Dream," "Swinging on a Star," "But Beautiful," "Here's That Rainy Day," "Love and Marriage," "Come Fly with Me,"…
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Dating Will Be Difficult When Everyone Is Dead [ by Chelsea Reilly]
Imagine your surprise when she tells you the rats got into the baby carriage again. There is a reason for everything, which I will explain much later. You have an important decision to make.…
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Meet the Press: Catherine Woodard in Conversation with Betsy Teter of Hub City Press
When I am lucky enough to travel, I always think about communities, about how each of us is defined by layers of communities. I grew up in Kenly, N.C., a town of 1,400 people…
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Cool Titles: is 5 (by Jenny Factor)
I've been thinking lately about Cool. About cool before the concept of cool. Or before the cool people of today knew about the concept of Cool because we weren't born yet. Take E.E. Cummings in…
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Interview with Sudeep Sen [by Catherine Woodard]
The birth of a book is a blessed day. The day I interviewed Sudeep Sen in January at his apartment in New Delhi about editing The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry, his latest poetry…
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How to Succeed in Hollywood in Eleven Easy Lessons [by Preston Sturges]
A pretty girl is better than an ugly one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better than a departure. A birth is…
