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  • “Picnic” on Labor Day [by David Lehman]

    September 3, 2021

    << Hal Carter (William Holden), a football star in college and a failure at everything since, hops off a freight train with nothing but the ragged shirt on his back. He arrives at a…

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  • “Picnic” on Labor Day [by David Lehman]

    September 3, 2021

    << Hal Carter (William Holden), a football star in college and a failure at everything since, hops off a freight train with nothing but the ragged shirt on his back. He arrives at a…

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  • Songs in Minor Keys [by Lera Auerbach]

    September 3, 2021

    Leitmotifs [Photo by Lera Auerbach] Every day I give birthto my death. Each death is different.They flutter around like moths.I find them in dusty corners, in drawers,or trapped in the spider webshanging from the…

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  • Songs in Minor Keys [by Lera Auerbach]

    September 3, 2021

    Leitmotifs [Photo by Lera Auerbach] Every day I give birthto my death. Each death is different.They flutter around like moths.I find them in dusty corners, in drawers,or trapped in the spider webshanging from the…

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  • Homage to Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) [by John Ashbery]

    September 2, 2021

    Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1952. Photo: Walter Silver. I’M WRITING THIS in a room that contains a number of pictures, mostly by women, as it happens. One is by Jane Freilicher, a still…

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  • Homage to Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) [by John Ashbery]

    September 2, 2021

    Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1952. Photo: Walter Silver. I’M WRITING THIS in a room that contains a number of pictures, mostly by women, as it happens. One is by Jane Freilicher, a still…

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