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Things Ben Mirov Thinks are Rad: Post 2 of ???
I feel like there are always "best albums of the summer," or a "best track of the summer". I like to have a best album of the winter. Mainly because I stay indoors, huddled…
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A Longing for World Culture: On “Joseph Brodsky, A Literary Life” by Lev Loseff (review by Andrey Gritsman)
The Joseph Brodsky “story” is still close to us. It feels he died just yesterday, and we remain in contact with him not through six degrees of separation but through one handshake. Every more…
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Sick of Winter (by Laura Orem)
January Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derision outside my window: Play louder. You will not succeed. I am bound more to my sentences the more you batter…
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Things Ben Mirov Thinks are Rad: Post 1 of ???
Hey. My name is Ben. I'll be posting all week about things I think are rad. The first thing I'd like to tell you about is a small journal slash reading series based in…
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Two Similes
"He did not envy her; her hands were empty — she was unhappy, she was poor, she had achieved nothing, even by her own standards. Yet she exasperated him, as the spendthrift will always…
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Happy Birthday Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796 (by Stacey Harwood)
OK I'm jumping the gun by one day but that's because I'm really looking forward to tonight's private Robert Burns supper at the recently opened Mary Queen of Scots restaurant (112 Allen Street, NYC).…
