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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 6, 2023

    December 6, 2023

    Congratulations to Mary Jo Bang whose book A Film in which I Play Everyone was published earlier this fall by Graywolf.  Here’s a spectacular sample poem: SPEAKING OF THE FUTURE, HAMLET is saying, someday…

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  • “The New York School of Beauty” [by Mary Maxwell]

    December 6, 2023

    The New York School of Beauty The man who cut James Schuyler’s hair also cuts my hair.I once heard Schuyler read at the Ninety Second Street Y. A large man, he sat at a…

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  • The first Paul Violi Prize (February 2015)

    December 5, 2023

    In February 2015, Gabriel Don took photos at a reading honoring the first recipients of the Paul Violi Prize at the New School. You'll recognize the late Bob Hershon, Tony Towle, Honor Moore, Marc…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Four): Joel Stein [by Angela Ball]

    December 5, 2023

    Through a Country   You, on the one hand, see a land Green and rolling With chalky marble And stretches of yellowed sandstone Patched here and there into the hills, Coming up for air…

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  • What’s Your Favorite Film Noir? (with Suzanne Lummis and David Lehman]

    December 4, 2023

     What is the greatest noir movie? Suzanne Lummis:I think Double Indemnity of 1944 is seminal, though a couple of others before it have strong noir elements. But Double Indemnity’s got it all, a terrific script and story,…

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  • Jesse Nathan: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 3, 2023

                                            _____________________________________________ Scouts   There was a boy even stranger than I who’d call me…

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