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  • Film Still Series # 120 [by Bill Hayward]

    September 20, 2009

    From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. Follow Bill's…

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  • William Waltz presents. . .a prose poem by Sarah Manguso

    September 20, 2009

    Although I’ve been urged, now and then, to go there, I’ve never been to Hell. A good Minnesotan might say, “I hear it’s nice there in the winter.” They say war is Hell, and…

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  • Happy Music

    September 19, 2009

    Has anyone else heard this group? Isn't her voice wonderful? — sdh

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  • “For it was the first day of Rosh Ha’shanah. . .”

    September 19, 2009

    For I Will Consider Your Dog Mollyby David Lehman For it was the first day of Rosh Ha'shanah, New Year's Day, day of        remembrance, of ancient sacrifices and averted calamities.For I started the…

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  • “l’d” [by Jim Dolot]

    September 19, 2009

    l’d Unstressed syllables in their bucolic straw hats Lounge on the verandahs of their lines Unable to govern words but enunciating Perfect ers and uhs and summer schwas Toward the bright emphasis from which…

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  • “The Dreyfus Affair” [by David Lehman]

    September 18, 2009

    Louis Begley writes well and is a good guide to one of modern history's great tragic causes celebres, the court-martial of French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus [left] on trumped-up charges of treason in 1894.…

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