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Bitching With Nin Andrews [by Nicole Santalucia]
This is the first in a series of blog posts that Nin Andrews and I will write about our writing process, or lack thereof. We like to bitch about writing, and I've been not…
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Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 12 pm, Psychobiography with Gail Saltz: On Frank Sinatra with David Lehman
Location: 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd StVenue: ClassroomPrice: from $25.00 The inner lives of great people are often more mysterious and fascinating than their public lives. Dr. Gail Saltz invites experts and…
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Flashback circa1965 [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
I'm walking with my father through the first floor of Alexander's department store on 3rd Avenue and 58th Street. A tall, well-dressed and made-up woman walks by. My father shakes his head. "Now there's a…
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‘Among My Souvenirs’ [by David Lehman]
Jazz standards and Hollywood movies of the 40s, usually in black and white, often in a noir mode, go together like streetlamps and shadows, seam stockings and high heels, fedoras and belted trench-coats,…
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Annals of Arlen II [with Ruth Etting, in 1933]
The singer is Ruth Etting, the piano player is Harold Arlen, the year is 1933. Sing Hallelujah, c'mon get happy,
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Happy Birthday, Harold Arlen [by David Lehman]
June 1939. Standing left to right: Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion), Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow), MGM executive L.K. Sidney, Yip Harburg, composer/ conductor Meredith Willson (who wrote The Music Man), music publisher Harry Link.…
