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Is the Avant-Garde Dead? What say ye, Camille?
Is it time to admit that avant-garde is a phenomenon of the 19h and 20th century? Camille Paglia think so:<<<It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It…
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Laura Cronk’s Kickoff Reading!
Laura Cronk will be the guest of honor at the New School Poetry Forum on Tuesday, October 16. Come to room 510 of 66 West 12 Street at 6:30 and hear her read selections…
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Jorie Graham at the New School [by Philip Brunst]
On Wednesday, October 3rd, fresh off her reception of the prestigious, 2012 Forward Prize, and in front of an eager, restless, crowded room at the New School, Jorie Graham read, with fervor and fluidity,…
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SAM AND JANET EVENING (A letter to my first friend’s mother at 100) by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
Dear Mrs. Erenstoft, You are the first person I know to celebrate a 100th birthday. I'd like to mark the occasion by sharing a few thoughts. Until 1991, when I read Molly Katz’s book,…
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LASAGNA AND MARGE by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
LASAGNA AND MARGE In her 70s, my mother began to call some women “Marge.” The real Marge, a kind, caring neighbor, visited my parents with homemade cookies and condominium gossip. She enjoyed my mother’s…
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GIVE MY REGARDS…by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
GIVE MY REGARDS… It is bad enough they aren’t writing musicals the way they once did. And that we no longer have a Frank Loesser. Or a Rogers and Hart. Or a Rogers and…
