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  • A Conversation with Dante Di Stefano, Part 1 [by Nin Andrews and Amanda Rabaduex]

    April 25, 2022

    NA: Your latest book, Lullaby with Incendiary Device, is part of a mini-anthology, featuring three books under one cover, called Generations, and published by Etruscan Press. I thought we should start with the title…

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  • A Note on Thomas Traherne [by David Lehman]

    April 24, 2022

    The blessed babe in a divine Eden is a Romantic trope, but it received a pure exposition long before the age of Blake and Wordsworth. A shoemaker’s son from Hereford, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) captured…

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  • Catherine Barnett: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    April 24, 2022

                          _________________________________________________________________________ Epistemology   Mostly I’d like to feel a little less, know a little more. Knots are on the top of my list…

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  • “She couldn’t sleep for a week.” Celebrating the Fifty Year Anniversary of the New York City Ballet Stravinsky Festival [by Eden Elieff]

    April 23, 2022

    Ed note: This is part one of a two-part series. Watch this space for part two, which will post next week. sdl Lincoln Kirstein (left) and George Balanchine drink a toast to Igor Stravinsky…

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  • “Mad Men”: The 4:20 Express [by David Lehman]

    April 22, 2022

    Think of tonight's episode, the best of the 5th season so far, as the Four Twenty Edition of Mad Men with a bummed out Peggy playing hooky smoking a joint with some horny stranger…

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  • What Would Kafka Do? [by Stacey Harwood]

    April 21, 2022

    On October 21, 1985, The New Yorker published this poem by Raymond Carver: Kafka’s Watch I have a job with a tiny salary of 80 crowns, andan infinite eight to nine hours of work.I devour the time…

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