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“A Manly Response to Disease”: Susan Gubar on “One Hundred Autobiographies”
photo © Stacey Lehman <<<While learning this spring that the coronavirus was taking a disproportionate toll on men, I was reading David Lehman’s account of his bladder cancer, a disease that also disproportionately afflicts men.…
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Poem in the Manner of the 1960s [by David Lehman]
Poem in the Manner of the 1960s Naked women are the bestYou meet them in corn fields and meadows They are naked and the moon is silverand it is summer with a bounty of…
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“Don’t Ask Me About My Business. . .” [by Mitch Sisskind]
A dream project of mine is to write a literary biography of Mario Puzo. I admire him as a great writer in a very special category that includes Dumas (in both his life and…
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SF and NY Duke it Out [by David Lehman]
In Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum says he used to live in New York and Rhonda Fleming says she’s never been there and Mitchum says that if she goes there, she’ll…
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“Operation Smart Blonde” [by Molly Arden]
I have never told anyone about this–that for years I worked for the Secret Service. I was part of an elite force consisting solely of blonde women. Once, I had to travel to the…
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On the value of being there with: Dance, the “art” of movement [by Tracy Danison]
Noe Soulier’s “Passages” in movement at the Gothic forest of the Conciergerie. Photo Patrick Berger ©Atelier de Paris I met Huang by chance… In the line, quite by chance, Huang was… By chance, I…