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Financial Market Report: Goldman Sax on the Beach [by David Lehman]
David Solomon, soon to be CEO of Goldman Sachs, moonlighting in the sun as a disc jockey at Gurney’s. (Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg) As summer winds down, and Labor Day recedes in the rear view…
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“Rocky Colavito” [by Jamie Katz]
When Rocky Colavito was hitting forty-two home runs a year,a dark-eyed, rifle-armed right fielder for the Cleveland Indians,my monthly sports magazine said he made the bobby-soxers swoon.I wasn’t sure what that meant.…
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On Sonny Rollins’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
for Jamie Katz Speaking of the devilyou know and the tenorsaxophonist your fatherplayed with,…
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“2001, A Backward Glance” [by Jane Mayhall, with a note from Leslie Daniels]
Men are mad so unavoidably that not to be mad would constitute one a madman of another order of madness. —PASCAL Busting out with mumble, the year when low-grade virus opinion took on…
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“Anthem” [poem by Bruce Bond, video by Mike Gioia]
Bruce Bond is a poet living in Denton Texas. When visiting Bond at his house in a shady suburb of Denton, multiple subtleties strike you about the man– his quiet manner, his late hours,…
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Chloé Silbano’s visual free verse shows more than a guy kill time [by Tracy Danison]
Historical etymology! What a marvelous sump of self-satisfying instruction! Badaud, the French word for “gawker”. Give it here. We can say it comes from the late Latin for “largely open”, then “yawn”, then through…
