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Long pause. (Beckett, “Catastrophe”)
A few weeks ago I finished Geoff Dyer’s Zona—a book about a movie (Tarkovsky’s Stalker) about a room. It’s a book of divine deviations. Toward the middle of the book, Dyer notes that he…
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“Big Tool” (by Allison Contey)
Big Tool Oh the frustration of the big tool.To have, or to have not a big tool,to be equipped to deal with the bigtool, to become a big tool when dealingwith it in a…
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“Letter to Violi from Prospect Heights” [by Amanda Smeltz]
Letter to Violi from Prospect Heights This week the wind picked up something crazy,ripped inside my coat on Sixth Ave. I got so tickedI growled, fuck you wind! Some old womenwhirled around, looked at…
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Life during wartime by Peter Shippy
Ladies and Gentlemen, in this corner, wearing the emerald trunks, the woman who made David the 2nd most famous Byrne from RISD, I give you Mairéad, the Dublin Goblin (Pangolin? Javelin? Mescaline?)! Byrne’s no-holds ars (rim-shot)…
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An Affair to Remember: Three Writers, Two poets, and a Chef in Harlem by Madge McKeithen
The readers – two poets, three prose writers, and one chef-cookbook author — at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Saturday night had been asked to consider these questions: What is…
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Lera Auerbach’s new requiem (an “ode to peace” in Dresden)
Excerpt from ‚Die Welt’ – 12.02.2012 – by Joachim Lange The Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach, endowed with many talents and currently enjoying the success of her opera "Gogol" in Vienna, has expanded her large-scale Requiem into an…
