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QUEENS OR BUST [by Andrei Codrescu]
If you are moving to New York to do your obligatory two years of poetic apprenticeship among the sophisticated, critical, merciless, and horribly smart (or not) natives, be sure that you move to Queens.…
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Why the Market Plunged, and What Will Happen Next [by David Lehman]
Like everyone else with money in the market, whether directly in shares of common stock or indirectly in mutual funds held in an IRA or a Keogh account, we knew we weren't supposed to…
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Next Line, Please: Come Live With Me and Be My Love
This week on Next Line, Please, writers were asked to write a poem in the form of a string of haikus. As usual, many excellent candidates rolled in, and here are but a few!…
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“I Don’t Think I’ll Fall in Love Today” [by George & Ira]
"Did you pick that cravat?" "I did that." "Here's your hat."And here are Nancy Walker and David Craig with the same number. . . "Don't you know how to cook?""I can look / in a…
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A Delphic Minute with Andrei Codrescu
It isn't often that one has a gaggle of virgin writers on one's desk, ready to answer any question, important, trivial, philosophically or gastro-erotically significant..Thus, an earnest question meets a prophetic answer. (With an…
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Harry James plays, Helen Forrest sings, Woody Allen listens [by DL]
"I know it well, that melody. . ."This was the first venture of the team of Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, who wrote many of Sinatra's songs from the late 40s ("Time After Time,"…
