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Available Now: “One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir” by David Lehman
One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman.Cornell Univ, $22.95(248p)ISBN 978-1-5017-4645-1 Poet and critic Lehman (Poems in the Manner of…), who was treated for bladder cancer in 2014, brilliantly captures the despair, uncertainty, and…
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Met Percent: Week Eight [by Alec Bernstein]
Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame, Byzantine, 1100, gallery 303 At the Met, lingering in the darkened galleries of the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, I select a few favorites: Eikonomachía – literally, "image…
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The Curse that Cannot Speak Its Name (by Mitch Sisskind)
A New York Times article full of negative insinuations linked Democrat candidate Tulsi Gabbard to white supremacist groups and Russian cyberbots. Throughout the article there’s puzzlement and a certain annoyance about Tulsi Gabbard: “What…
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Noir and You: David Lehman Asks Suzanne Lummis About The Studio System
David Lehman: Do you believe that true noir as a genre — leaving out neo-noirs, parodies, and ingenious movies on the order of The Getaway, The Usual Suspects, and Memento — owes its existence to the studio system,…
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That’s What I Thought [by Mitch Sisskind]
Everybody has a tragic storyAnd I have one of those too. Would you like to hear it For a couple of hours on an Economy class flight to LA?Haha that’s what I thought! Or let’s talk about…
