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Summer of Fruit Tarts–Peach-O-Rama [by Barbara Hamby]
I go a little crazy when peaches are in season, which in North Florida is between the middle of June and the middle of August. We're a 45 minute drive from Georgia, which is…
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Eliot on Becket, and Beckett too
And yet it is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish…
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Robert McDowell: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________________________ Pissed at Bukowski I woke up at 2 a.m. pissed at Bukowski. I rolled…
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How Life Magazine Vaulted Jackson Pollock’s Career [by David Lehman]
You could plot out the rise of Abstract Expressionism by consulting selected issues of the popular magazines of the time, especially Life. Initially the press played its part by scoffing. In 1947 Time reproduced…
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from “The Seven Most Meaningful Compositions That I Will Love Forever” [by Lewis Saul]
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig Van: String Quartet in C# Minor, Op. 131 (1825) It was forty years ago today … No, that can't be right — it just sounded nice! But it was like 39 or so —…
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Navigating Through Dreams [by Lera Auerbach]
Japanese Ink on Paper © Lera Auerbach The Air We Breathe This year we all learned how to wash hands. Perhaps, we didn’t learn but only made a lot of noise. Washing hands, sanitizing,…
