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In This Valley of Dying Stars by Tracy K. Smith
It’s been an exhilarating week for me, reading quickly and deeply, and then finding the words to record the flurry of emotions unleashed by each successive voice. And recording these reflections has been a…
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Into the Woods by Tracy K. Smith
Years ago, one of my professors spent the first half hour of our first class of the term reading us Italo Calvino’s version of an Italian folktale called “The Parrot,” about a merchant who…
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Freud Quiz # 27
In addition to John Huston's movie Freud, starring Montgomery Clift, which of these movies deals with the papa of psychoanalysis: (1) Orson Welles''s "The Trial" in which Joseph K. (Anthony Perkins) — and by…
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Hot Topic, Hot Day, Cool Show: “A Taste of the Past” [by Stacey Harwood]
I was honored to be one of two guests today on Linda Pelaccio's Heritage Radio Network program "A Taste of the Past." The show is broadcast live over the internet from a studio that…
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Calling into the Silence [by Tracy K. Smith]
To be embarrassingly honest, I was a little frightened to actually sit down with Last Seen, by Jacqueline Jones LaMon. It’s a collection about African American children who have gone missing, and I worried…
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He’s Number One!!
Congratulations! to T. P. Winch, whose new book, Falling out of Bed in a Room with No Floor, is #1 on the Small Press Distribution best-seller list. That's exactly where the book should be. …
