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Tales of the Eighties: “Thronging Pilgrims…” [by Alan Ziegler]
1984: I meet Erin at a Christmas party, and we get serious quickly. Erin comes from a devoutly religious family. Her father, Paul, is a church organist, composer of liturgical music, and music school…
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Painting Continued/Criticism/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the fourth in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) PAINTING CONTINUED I keep at it, after the first course ends, and a second, as Stephan drifts…
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On Children’s Birthday Parties, by E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
The day was momentous, but parties were mixed blessings. You got presents, all right—pick-up sticks, or crayons, or flat boxes of modeling clay in many colored strips—but they were the lesser presents…
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Painting/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the third in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) PAINTING I couldn’t write and so for a long time I turned my creative attention elsewhere:…
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In Appreciation of James Tate, 1943-2015 [by David Lehman]
I became a convert to James Tate’s poetry when he published Constant Defender and Reckoner in 1983 and ’86 respectively. I was asked to review his work for the Washington Post Book World, and…
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Drawing/Painting/Drawing Continued/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the second in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) DRAWING Stephan likes to tell people that he introduced me to drawing, but that isn’t strictly…
