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  • Yes, We Have Cable TV in Red Lion [by Laura Orem]

    August 16, 2008

    "The Music Man" Her boundary lines had fallen onpleasant places. You can haveanything you want here in Southern California,although she was told that a flock of ravenslanding on your hair means you will be…

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  • Death of a Fussy Man [by Ken Tucker]

    August 15, 2008

    In the space of a week, another great editor has died. First Ted Solotaroff, and now L. Rust Hills, dead at age 83 and one of the finest fiction and magazine editors, as well…

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  • Larry Rivers at the Guild Hall in East Hampton

    August 15, 2008

    Art Review | ‘Larry Rivers’ The New York Times, August 14, 2008 A spirit of possibility electrifies the galleries of Guild Hall in East Hampton, Long Island. The exhibition on view, “Larry Rivers: Major…

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  • Remembering Liam Rector [by Laura Orem]

    August 15, 2008

    "Old Coat" Dressed in an old coat I lumberDown a street in the East Village, time itself Whistling up my ass and looking to punish meFor all the undone business I have walked away…

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  • “Since I have stuck my tongue. . .” [by Jason Camlot]

    August 15, 2008

    Since I have stuck my tongue… Since I have stuck my tongue in your wet cup, since I have felt my head between your hands, since I have sniffed the perfume of your glands,…

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  • More on Frank O’Hara and Mad Men

    August 14, 2008

    Check out Don Share’s post over at Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, about Mad Men’s Frank O’Hara product placement.  What poem should Don Draper read next?  Ashbery’s "The Instruction Manual" (Some Trees, 1956) gets…

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