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Phil Jackson: Where was he in 1984? by Stacey Harwood
Reading Catherine Woodard's post last week about NBA coach Phil Jackson reminded me that way back in the mid-1980s Jackson coached the Continental Basketball Association Albany (NY) Patroons. The Patroons' home arena was the…
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Tanya Larkin on Fracking and Gregory Lawless’s Poems
Nearly everything reminds me of fracking these days. On the bus home from New York this morning, there was the usual offender, a woman having a long, loud conversation on her cell phone. I…
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“No R” — a short story by David Lehman [with a coda by Borges]
<<< Kaminsky knows how to survive in the magazine business: start a magazine that almost nobody can understand, and become the darling of the academy>>> from "No R," a story by David Lehman, in…
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Telling Stories, Discovering Voice: A Writing Weekend for Nurses by James Stubenrauch
Sappho fresco (from Pompeii) Museo archeologico nazionale (Naples) Spend time talking with nurses and you’re likely to hear some amazing stories. They’ll tell you about their patients and their patients’ families, about wounds…
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Tanya Larkin on Cavalli, Koch and Paestum: Is There Any Comparison?
"I don't want to talk about love, I just want to make it." (D'amore non voglio parlare, lo voglio solamente fare.) I hear this Patrizia Cavalli line, made famous in Kenneth Koch's poem "Talking…
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Kierkegaard weighs in on the Eurozone crisis [by DL]
The question on everyone's mind is, What is German Chancellor Angela Merkel going to do? She's reportedly still undecided. so I recommend that she listen to Ella singing this song with the Chick Webb…
