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Blast from the Past: When I Cancelled “The New York Times” [by Walter Carey]
Sometimes the news seems extravagantly self-satirical in a way that seems to outstrip the imagination of anyone writing under the constellation of Evelyn Waugh. As 2015 came to a close, the New York Times…
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On Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th Birthday (in 2011)
Mark Strand reading "First Death in Nova Scotia (c) Lawrence Schwartzwald Alice Quinn of the Poetry Society of America brilliantly organized the group reading Tuesday February 8th [2011] honoring the 100th anniversary of Elizabeth…
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Amala Dianor: Dance is an exchange of energy and liberation [By Tracy Danison]
Amala Dianor. Photo © Jérome Bonnet The choreographer dancer Amala Dianor has been in view recently, will continue to be in view for some time to come. I reckon it’s his will to get…
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Teaching the Ape to Write Poems [by James Tate]
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems They didn’t have much troubleteaching the ape to write poems:first they strapped him to the chair,then tied the pencil around his hand(the paper had already been nailed down).Then…
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“Aubade” [by Philip Larkin]
Aubade I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day…
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Frank Sinatra’s Love Affair With the Jewish People [by Benjamin Ivry]
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. October 2015. Frank Sinatra’s Love Affair With the Jewish People Image by Courtesy of HarperCollins By Benjamin Ivry October 7, 2015
