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Jo Stafford and “Too Marvelous for Words”
It's Jo Stafford's sublime version you hear in "Dark Passage" (1947) with Bogart and Bacall. "Bogart: "you like swing?" Bacall: "yes, legitimate swing." Richard Whiting (Margaret's papa) wrote the music and Johnny Mercer the…
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Tales of the Seventies: The Children’s Ward at the Vermont State Hospital (1970); [by Alan Ziegler]
We arrive at connected brick buildings in a clearing surrounded by Vermont; inside, khaki walls, urine, and sobs. We are told, “Students tend to be overly idealistic but this place isn’t bad for a mental…
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“Says Who? Says Tina” [by Michael Malinowitz]
When Lizzie T. married her Mr. Todd did she think his eye odd?Oops I’ve got the wrong movie,the different team and I’m a few extra yearsoff. Dear boys, can you ever and ever forgive…
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Sus Utcunque Evanescens [by Laura Orem]
AWP began over 20 years ago to help professionalize the MFA as a terminal degree so that writers working in academia would be eligible for tenure. The logic was that teachers with the MFA…
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Fragments 50-60 (from Selected Fragments) [by Alan Ziegler]
50. Part of me grew up the day Superman blew his brains out. 51. Bowling: Quantity not quality. 52. A wooden wagon propelled by the light of the moon. 53. Inside each of…
