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Tom Disch, 1940-2008 [by Ken Tucker]
When Tom Disch committed suicide on July 4, 2008, we ran this short obituary note by Ken Tucker: The general public may know his best-known credit: He wrote the novella The Brave Little Toaster,…
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Too cold for a swim, too warm for a cozy read? Do a little dance [by Tracy Danison]
Paris Dance Performance: November – December 2019 Entangled in “Samsara” by Jann Gallois©Agathe Poupeney In November and December, Lady Felice Millefeuille-Bonté, the trillionaire débutante, will, I know, be trying to find me again to…
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Paris Dance Performance: November – December 2019 [by Tracy Danison]
Too cold for a swim, too warm for a cozy read? Do a little dance “Samsara” by Jann Gallois/cie Burnout©Agathe Poupeney Twenty contemporary and modern dance and performance offers in Paris, late Autumn 2019.…
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The Halloween Poet: On Keats’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers (inverted), and the Tower as…
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It was 90 years ago today. . .
Ninety years ago, the stock market crashed. It was on the 29th of October, a Tuesday, as it is this year. A little known fact is that the poet, professor and scholar John Hollander…
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Met Percent: Week Nine [by Alec Bernstein]
In Situ (Ex Situ) (Left) Asmat Tribe, New Guinea. (Right) Bis (funerary) Poles, Asmat peoples, 1960, gallery 354 (Nelson Rockefeller Collection). The question that surfaced, after 3 trips to the Africa, Oceania, and the Americas…
