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I Am Trying to Understand — by Lynn Saul
2017 My big sister, Lynn, passed away in 2019. I think about her every day. She was a lawyer, but gave it up to become a poet. This one's about our great-aunt,…
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“Doubting the Doubts” [by David Shapiro]
David Shapiro wishes Jasper Johns a happy birthday (May 15)! Doubting the Doubts A map dropped from my handsAnd a voice cried, From now onYou will proceed in darkness.Alas, he laughed, that is true.…
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How the Times Reviewed Fitzgerald, Forster, Woolf, Henry James et al
YThis is how reviewers at the NY Times treated certain books: Scott Fitzgerald:“Bad news is best blurted out at once: ‘Tender Is the Night’ is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging…
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The Problem of Evil
Solzhenitsyn muses that if the intellectuals of Chekhov’s plays who wondered what things would be like in a few decades had learned “that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a…
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Nicky Beer: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Marlene Dietrich Plays Her Musical Saw for the Troops, 1944 See how the silver snaps in a lone spot, the sound…
