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Alice Kaplan, Guest Blogger
We're pleased to welcome Alice Kaplan as our guest blogger. Alice writes about French literature and history and teaches at Yale. In April she published Dreaming in French: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and…
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Happy Independence Day! Jump for Joy!
Former NYC Ballet Premier Danseur Jacques d’Amboise in George Balanchine‘s Stars and Stripes
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Gertrude Stein, never out of date. . . [by DL]
"Rose is a rose is a rose." — Gertrude Stein "It is what it is." — contemporary version
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From the Archive: The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness (by Tess Callahan)
Even before I began writing, I loved to draw and paint. Although I enjoyed it, I never considered it as a profession. Maybe I was afraid of the impracticality, or like my character, Oliver,…
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Can women have it all? No way, Jose! [by David Lehman]
I just got the July / August issue of The Atlantic and note that the lead article, judging by size of type and prominence of cover placement, is "Why Women Still Can't Have it…
