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“Instant Shave”: The invention that we need (high concept) [by David Lehman]
"We're calling it Instant Shave, a transformative producton the model of Instant Coffee, and it's your jobto create the damn thing. I don't care how you do itbut do it." The head of marketing…
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David Lehman and Angela Ball at Le Poisson Rouge
This Monday, February 12th, David Lehman and Angela Ball will be giving a poetry reading at Le Poisson Rouge of Bleecker Street. Join in for drinks, laughs, and a grand old time! Event…
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Happy birthday, Jimmy, the people’s cherce
Jimmy teaches Sinatra how to sing. . .' "It doesn't have to be witty or smart / just along as it comes from the heart"'
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Vladimir Horowitz was a Genius [by David Lehman]
Listen to his Carmen Variationsspectacularplayed spectacularly by Yuja Wangborn on this very day!(and a tip of the fedorato M. Bizet, author ofthe greatest opera)
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In Appreciation of James Tate [by David Lehman]
I became a convert to James Tate’s poetry when he published Constant Defender and Reckoner in 1983 and ’86 respectively. I was asked to review his work for the Washington Post Book World, and this in part is what…
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THE NEW ECONOMY [by Andrei Codrescu]
Every day I produce a minimum of five lucrative ideas. Unfortunately, I lack an entourage of five people needed to make them successful, namely, 1. a scribe, 2. a translator, 3. a designer, 4.…
