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Meditations on John Ashbery [by Vincent Katz]
Juan Martín del Potro is playing Rafael Nadal in the Semifinal at the U.S. Open, and suddenly I am thinking how John Ashbery could, had he been watching, turn all this — the court,…
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Remembering Kate Millett [by Catharine R. Stimpson]
Kate Millett, sculptor, author and feminist, on her booted stool by her useless piano, two-headed bed and bachelor chest at Judson Memorial Church in New York, March 1st, 1967. Photograph: Neal Boenzi/The New…
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“Tower Two” [by Kirsten Chen]
Tower Two I have since imagined you– a thousand pounds ofpaper, escaping windows floating to safety from a hundred stories higher. I have since spoken to you on…
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“What’s My Line?” (of 11 / 11 / 56) [by David Lehman]
Episode of November 11, 1956, "What's My Line?" moderated by the erudite John Daly, with panelists Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Random House publisher (and Columbia grad) Bennett A. Cerf. And who's the mystery…
