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Tanya Larkin on Gillian Kiley’s The Palisades
Yesterday I taught The Rite of Spring and Jonah Lehrer’s excellent essay on Stravinsky from his first book Proust Was a Neuroscientist. It’s about how difficult it is for the brain to accept new…
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Quote of the Day
"All Schnitzel cooks agree that the color of a Weiner Schnitzel should be a light golden brown. Certain Breughel paintings and Stradivari violins have the perfect Schnitzel color." — from The Cooking of Vienna's…
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Phil Jackson: Where was he in 1984? by Stacey Harwood
Reading Catherine Woodard's post last week about NBA coach Phil Jackson reminded me that way back in the mid-1980s Jackson coached the Continental Basketball Association Albany (NY) Patroons. The Patroons' home arena was the…
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Tanya Larkin on Fracking and Gregory Lawless’s Poems
Nearly everything reminds me of fracking these days. On the bus home from New York this morning, there was the usual offender, a woman having a long, loud conversation on her cell phone. I…
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“No R” — a short story by David Lehman [with a coda by Borges]
<<< Kaminsky knows how to survive in the magazine business: start a magazine that almost nobody can understand, and become the darling of the academy>>> from "No R," a story by David Lehman, in…
