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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eight) The News from Great Britain: Martin Stannard [by Angela Ball]
THAT THING We once had one in our housewith handles on both sides. But I forget its name. Sometimes I even forget my own. The self is an overlaying of multiple identities, comprised not…
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The Alphabet as Hero: A “Next, Line Please” Entry
This post appeared as a "Next Line, Please" entry on The American Scholar website, July 17, 2018: For next week, our missionwill beto test our abilityat compressionand brevity,with our customary civility. But first let’s…
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Ted Berrigan on the 38th Anniversary of his Death: Posthumous Pick of the Month [ed. Terence Winch]
© Mark Hillringhouse Photography _________________________________________________________________________________ New Personal Poem to Michael Lally You had your own…
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Gardner McFall: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Gardner McFall. Photo by Susan Unterberg. __________________________________________________________________________________ First Kiss When Raymond glided by me…
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Celebrate Independence: George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes [by Stacey Lehman]
Russian born choreographer George Balanchine loved America. It was here that his genius found its full expression in the New York City Ballet. Nowhere is that love more manifest than in the exuberant "Stars…
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The case for “Blow Out”: 40 years later — on 7/4/21 [by Joe Lehman]
Brian De Palma directed Blow Out (1981) at the height of his ‘Hitchcock’ period, during which he helmed such films as Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double. All these movies contained homages…