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Who Wrote Frank O’Hara’s Poems?
They've been doing it to Shakespeare for centuries. They claim that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare. Leave aside for the moment that this sentence exemplifies what Wittgenstein called nonsense. Think instead of the authentic pleasure…
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Fred & Ginger at the Film Forum, August 24
Megin Jimenez reports that an Astaire-Rogers double-bill festival is in progress at the Film Forum on Houston Street in NYC. We missed Swing Time, the best of them all, on Tuesday the 17th, but…
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Tonight in Central Park: Tom Healy, Jehanne Dubrow, Terrence Hayes
6:30 PM: Be there! Central Park–The Arsenal 830 Fifth Avenue(at 64th Street)New York, NY 10065
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Reading David Foster Wallace Without a Net [by Eleanor Goodman]
Two years ago next month, the writer, philosopher, and literary genius David Foster Wallace hanged himself in his backyard. I didn’t know DFW, and initially I disliked his work. True, I took some pride…
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Middle Memory, A Day at the Beach [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Sometimes I go out sometimes I stay in. Out, I sometimes take a lot of pics. This one reminds me that last summer I was taking lots of shots of bunches of…
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What Appears To Be Really Is [by Eleanor Goodman]
There is a discrete point in life when you suddenly realize your parents look frail, you have wrinkles starting to spider out from the corners of your eyes, and practically everyone you know is…
