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Michael Leahy’s Group Portrait of the Dodgers in the 1960s [by David Lehman]
No self-respecting Dodger fan will want to overlook Michael Leahy's The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers (HarperCollins).Independent of the Dodger fan base, students of baseball history will…
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Young Lycidas: “Next Line, Please” Breaks New Ground [by David Lehman]
From the "Next Line, Please" corner of The American Scholar. A weekly challenge in verse. <<<< The prompt for this week—to rewrite two to six lines of Milton’s “Lycidas”—turned out to be one of…
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Some thoughts (and questions) on the Donald Trump statues and political caricature (by Laura Orem)
I've been very interested in the debate about the Donald Trump statues. Some find them offensive as fat-shaming, transphobic, or simply in bad taste. Others find them hilariously apt. I collected these 2-D caricatures…
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Stacey’s “Mussells in Cider” [moules au cidre] [by David Lehman]
The birthday girl made this feast for us on a night begun with two glasses of Chateau Frank 2009 methode champenoise. Rinse musselsSlice onion into large stripsAdd two cloves of garlic, mincedSaute in olive…
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Marry me, marry me, marry me!
Happy Anniversary to us [by William Butler Yeats] He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf…
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An Autobiography in Cookbooks Part I: The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook © 1948 [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
My mother received this cookbook as a wedding gift and passed it on to me many years ago. It remains one of my favorites, not because of the recipes though there are some good…
