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James Franco and David Lehman to Host Reality TV: America’s Next Top Poet [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Fox network announced today that it will headline its fall programming with "America's Next Top Bard." In the pilot, contestants are asked to memorize and recite a soliloquy from Hamlet, to write a bad…
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Catullus # 53 translated by Molly Arden
Listening to the learned Calvus castigate, with many an oratorical flourish, the demagogue Vatinius, a man in the crowd lifted his hands in astonishment, and said, "God, that little prick can talk!" — translated…
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Tom Selleck to Run for Governor of NY [by Walter Carey]
The Hollywood press was stunned to learn last night that Tom Selleck, who plays police commish Frank Reagan in CBS's hit drama "Blue Bloods," will be running in the Republican primary to earn…
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New Trilling Essay Talk of the Town [by David Lehman]
The emergence of a previously unknown and uncharacteristically fiery essay by Lionel Trilling is all the buzz in intellectual circles. Our stringers at far-flung camupuses report the excitement at faculty clubs and academic production…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Pat Mora
The Waiting, acrylic on canvas, by Julia Khoroshikh Metamórfosis by Pat Mora Pearls here …
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Notes on the Final Four (Part Two) [by Dean Smith]
Part 2: Touch I’m still replaying Grayson Allen’s last second shot against Kansas that would have sent Duke to the Final Four. Last Sunday's game resembled a heavyweight boxing match from start to finish…
