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Ode to Poking Around [by Catherine Woodard]
“I wish to speak a word for the art of poking around,” begins philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore in a fine art book beautifully built around…
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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood; Ghost Poet: Ben Jonson
I'm thrilled to be "Medium of the Month" over at The New School's The Inquisitive Eater. Here's my first selection: Stacey Harwood, poet laureate of the New York Greenmarkets and New School faculty member…
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Tales of the Sixties: The Affair on 47th Street [by Alan Ziegler]
1969. I get a temp job on Manhattan’s diamond block, West 47th between 6th and 7th, working in an upstairs room sorting and transporting gems from bins into marked envelopes. It is menial, minimum wage.…
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On Magic [by Victoria Kelly]
Because my first novel, Mrs. Houdini, is about the famous illusionist’s wife, sometimes I am asked whether I believe in magic. When I was living in Ireland, that magical isle, in 2008 as a…
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On Bedtime and Books [by Victoria Kelly]
For three years, before I had my own children, I was a Court Appointed Special Advocate to two little girls living in the foster care system. As a CASA, I visited these girls weekly—at…
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“He was out!”: On Meeting Yogi Berra
Editor's note: I was going through boxes of old photos when I came across this gem. It's a picture of our good friend Jamie Katz in conversation with Yogi Berra. There had to be…
