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Inviting a Friend to Supper (by Mitch Sisskind)
Of Wittgenstein here’s all I know and All you need to know, my dear friend: ‘I don’t care what I eat as long as it’s ‘The same thing every day.’ Genau! Thus spake…
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Lewis Saul on Beethoven’s String Quartet in C# Minor
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 — and…
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Thomas Moody’s “Construction Magnet”
Here are the opening line of Thomas Moody's new poem “Construction Magnet.” The poem has a remarkable epigraph "(For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? — Ecclesiastes 3:22). Please…
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Bud Abbott And Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein [by George Green]
When Frankenstein meets Abbott and Costello he’s waiting for some major surgery. He needs a new brain, Dracula decides, and Lou’s brain is the pick; it’s pliable. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the anxious Wolf…
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“Hamlet versus the Nazis” [by David Lehman]
Ed note: I write the "Talking Pictures" monthly column on movies for The American Scholar. My latest deals with Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 masterpiece, "To Be or Not to Be," with Carole Lombard and Jack…
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Perjury Marloff Handicaps the Poets! [by Walter Carey]
In a rare interview with the gun-shy Ms. Marloff, I got her to open up about the current situation in poetry last Friday. First (she said) let me say a few words about poor…
