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Riddle of the Day # 5 [courtesy Richard Wilbur]
<<<Mine to give, mine to offerNo resistance. MineTo receive you, mine to keepThe shape of our nights." — Donald Justice>>> Okay, what is it? — DL
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A stream-of-consciousness Sunday [by Ken Tucker]
Reading my friend Logan Hill's excellent New York Magazine movie coverage led me to think about the friend of his he introduced me to a few years ago, the fine critic-editor Ada Calhoun, and…
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Victoria Rowan, Guest Blogger March 15-21
This week we welcome Victoria Rowan as our guest blogger. Victoria has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Moscow Times, NPR and many other publications. A longtime producer of literary…
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Freud Quiz # 19
Freud Quiz # 19Where did Freud and Dante hold the first of their summit meetings?(a) The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1962.(b) The Minetta Tavern on MacDougal Street(c) With Ulysses and Diomedes in the…
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Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Bob Hicok
“Few writers have a stronger word-of-mouth among poetry fans than Bob Hicok, and his poems are everywhere. Why? Well, perhaps because his quasi-meditative poems sound like colloquial, idiosyncratic speech, but hone in on larger…
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B Yavuuhulan’s 80th Anniversary [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
Finally, I promise, I received the following text from Mend-Ooyo this morning, commemorating what would tomorrow, March 15th, have been his teacher (and this week's first subject) Yavuuhulan's 80th birthday. I understand that my…
