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Katha Pollitt, Guest Blogger August 2-9
photo by Christina Pabst This week we welcome Katha Pollitt as our guest blogger. Pollitt's new book of poems, "The Mind-Body Problem," is just out from Random House. She is a columnist at The…
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O Margaret Whiting, we love you (even when you go up)
Stacey and I went to all-Mercer show at the 92nd Street Y a few years ago — an evening of songs sung by Broadway talent concluding with a tune everyone in the audience could…
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The Beer Summit
¶Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden were in shirtsleeves; Sergeant Crowley and Professor Gates wore suits. ¶The four drank out of beer mugs. Mr. Obama had a Bud Lite, Sergeant Crowley had Blue Moon, Professor…
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Conclusion: Mary Jo Bang’s Favorite Covers [by Phoebe Putnam]
[Mask from a "Masopust" celebration at a Czech Waldorf School] Poet Mary Jo Bang's comments about her covers show her to be, as always, interested in the visual world as a series of…
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A Tale of Two Kitchens, Or How We Met [by Stacey Harwood]
With one day remaining on Phoebe Putnam’s visit here, I want to tell the story of how she came to be a guest blogger. Most of our guests come to us through rather conventional…
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Updike’s Terrorist
These are the epigraphs for John Updike's novel Terrorist (2006) <<<And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.And the Lord said,…
