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More on Cooking and Writing
Leslie McGrath's recent post about the similarities between writing and cooking reminded me of this passage, by Charles Simic: If not in bed, my next writing-place of choice is the kitchen, with its smells…
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Tart Pie Filling: The Pushcart Prize and Online Literary Magazines (by Leslie McGrath)
I’ve promised pie filling today. Here it is in the form of a literary controversy which, like the pie plates, doesn’t appear to have gotten much light. The 2012 edition of Pushcart Prize…
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Endless Genghis Khan adventure movie….
This goes on for about thirty more episodes — in Chinese or Mongolian, your guess is as good as mine. Genghis Khan (real name: Temujin) was a pretty bad guy but what the hell. The…
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Sherman’s Still Yellen After Sixty Glorious Years
Librettist ("The Rothschilds"), playwright, and Emmy-award winning screenwriter Sherman Yellen celebrates the jubilee of his marriage in this post via Huffington: <<< When we married on a sweltering June day in 1953, the chance…
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Binghamton Loves Me (to the tune of “Somebody Loves Me”)
Here (with thanks to Nicole Santalucia and Deanna Dorangrichia) is the latest sign that Binghamton wants to attain Hampton status:
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Three Pie Plates and a Civil War Era Mystery
I’ve been dying to show you all these beautiful old pie plates we found recently. They were resting on a beam above the ceiling of a bedroom in our house. The house was…
