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The Dylan Watch (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
David Lehman asked me to “talk about the opening of ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ in relation to the chapter in Genesis that is its source. This re-telling of Abraham’s ‘binding’ of Isaac reminds me a…
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“In Defense of Babel” (by Lee Upton)
In Defense of Babel –for Alastair Noble When the sniper’s eye from paradise fastened on the tower, sand exploded and gushed into a whirlwind…
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Jill Alexander Essbaum Interviews Reb Livingston [by Reb Livingston]
Jill once dreamed that we shared a hotel room which is something we also did in real life. I remember waking up in that hotel room (in real life) and telling her about a…
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Al Nussbaum (by mitch sisskind)
Readers of this site know that ‘tough guy’ writers are my pet peeve. Yes, some writers really were tough: Mickey Spillane, Nelson Algren, Eddie Bunker, Samuel ‘Cut Deeper’ Johnson, and Thomas Carlyle, to name…
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The Trip Not Taken – Quick Muse
<< QuickMuse is a cutting contest, a linguistic jam session, a series of on-the-fly compositions in which some great poets riff away on a randomly picked subject. It’s an experiment, QuickMuse, to see if…
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Interview with Ravi Shankar [by Reb Livingston]
Last year I dreamed that one-by-one Ravi’s friends approached me to point out that he was rich. My response was “You mean that cheapskate?” followed by anecdotal evidence of a time he failed to…
