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  • A Few of my Favorite Blurbs [by Alan Ziegler]

    December 11, 2023

    I told Alan that when I was general editor of the U of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry series,I offered to publish Richard Howard's Collected Blurbs. He liked the idea. Then we playeda game…

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  • Kathleen O’Toole: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 10, 2023

                                          ___________________________________________ Those Reels   skip from Billy's accordion skim the polished floorboards ’til they land…

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  • The Peter Pan Syndrome: “I am Charlie Brown” [by Joe Lehman]

    December 9, 2023

    I should thank Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Steadfast Tin Soldier (and Jon Voight, for that matter) for shaping me as the man I am now. And of course, I should include Peanuts…

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  • “Dino Dozes” [by Boris Dralyuk]

    December 8, 2023

    Dino Dozes                                    In old age Dean Martin ate dinner every Sunday night at the counter    …

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  • Did Freud Die? And if so, when? [by David Lehman]

    December 8, 2023

    I) Yes, he died (1) At Freiberg (then part of Moravia) of a gunshot wound said to be self-inflicted on 6 May 1856 (2) In London of throat cancer on 23 September 1939 (3)…

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  • The Godfather: How we know Don Corleone died on December 7th

    December 7, 2023

    <<<While Sonny is driving  to his death, he's listening to the October 3,1951 radio broadcast of Russ Hodges calling the decisive third game of the Dodgers-Giants playoff — a half-inning before Bobby Thomson ended the Dodgers' season…

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