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The Expulsion [by Katha Pollitt]
Adam was happy — now he had someone to blamefor everything: shipwrecks, Troy,the gray face in the mirror. Eve was happy — now he would always need her.She walked on boldly, swaying her beautiful…
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The Birth of the Jukebox (by Larry Epstein)
Ah, the jukebox. Bob Dylan once said that in his youth he had been a "Woody Guthrie jukebox." The metaphor is telling. All of us have whole songs or partial lyrics stored within us…
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“Whom do you write your poems for?” [by Katha Pollitt]
It’s easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of various sorts, college-educated, over…
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Turning Thirty [by Katha Pollitt]
This spring, you’d swear it actually gets dark earlier. At the elegant new restaurants downtownyour married friends lock glances over the walnut torte: it’s ten o’clock. The have important jobsand go to bed before…
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Radio Free Sinatra
<<<My father, Frank Sinatra, and singers like Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby and Perry Como fought for years for performance royalties from radio stations, arguing it was unfair that performers are not paid and citing…
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Paulo Coelho Poetry Anthology
Paulo Coelho is one of the most widely read novelists in the world. His best known book is The Alchemist, but I found Eleven Minutes — the story of a Brazilian prostitute — to…
