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O Today We’ll Merry, Merrry Be
O today we'll be merry merry beO today we'll be merry merry beO today we'll be merry merry beTomorrow we'll be sober
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A Brief Digression on Critics and Cops [by David Lehman]
Why do award committees pin the tail on the horse’s ass? Because award committees combine a universal truth (“everyone’s a critic”) with an old punch line (“the committee in charge of designing a horse…
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Happy birthday, Sandy Koufax (born December 30, 1935)
No self-respecting Dodger fan will want to overlook Michael Leahy's The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers (HarperCollins).Independent of the Dodger fan base, students of baseball history will…
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover [by Nin Andrews]
But that’s exactly what I did when I purchased Quan Barry’s poetry collection, Auction. The cover: a transparent blue toilet. How could I resist? It reminded me of how often I have searched for…
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from “The Fight for the Future of Publishing” [by Alex Perez /The Free Press]
Inside the Book World from "The Fight for the Future of Publishing" [from The Free Press] by ALEX PEREZ / November 28, 2023Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book…
