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Tom Meschery—Rerun from 2015 [by Alan Ziegler]
With Steph Curry swishing three-pointers into the bucket by the bucket, I was reminded of this piece from 2015, in which Tom Meschery said, "I can’t stop writing little haikus about Steph Curry," and…
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My (Old) Bio [by Molly Arden]
Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New England states plus Florida and Arizona. At 19 she was…
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Squibs 464-472 [by Alan Ziegler]
464: Found Writing Prompt: 465: I can’t operate a phone in a dream. I misdial on buttons too small, can’t retrieve messages, am unable to phone home to tell my dead parents I’ll be late. And,…
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Talking Pictures: On “The Asphalt Jungle’”
Ed note: Since December 2019 I have written a regular column on classic movies for The American Scholar. Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest, which was posted yesterday (April 17) under the…
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Free City FilmTrip – 1 “Corrupt Purposes” [film by Bill Hayward]
Bill Hayward is a creative paradox: a master image-maker who lives surrounded by poets and writers. You should see what he does to his books, which lie in great stalagmites all over his floor…
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Elinor Nauen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________ The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell had just about convinced me there’s more to life than sex I’d like…
