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  • Richard Kutner, Guest Author July 17-21

    July 16, 2017

    This week we're thrilled to welcome Richard Kutner as our guest author. Richard graduated from Yale University with a major in French Literature. His translations from French to English include After the Roundup: Escape…

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  • Pleuroncodes planipes [by Lily Bowen]

    July 14, 2017

    All my exes wish they lived by the ocean.We wear boots on the firm sand as youblend in, lack of color,blue and gray liquid revolving,I think maybe I could live here toofor a while.…

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  • “How America Gets in Trouble Overseas” [by Bruce Isaacson]

    July 13, 2017

    On the day I went to visit Dostoevsky's grave…it rained.  It rained that cold & constant Petrograd rainthat gets between your bones and the meat.  I thought to get out of the rainat the…

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  • Judy and Mickey: “Our Love Affair”

    July 12, 2017

       

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  • “You’re so good that I hate you”: Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand get happy

    July 10, 2017

       

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  • Judy Garland and Mel Torme collaborate on the Trolley Song (1963) [by David Lehman]

    July 10, 2017

    This is how I recommend you start your dayfresh squeezed orange juiceand then the phone ringsand oh yes coffeeand an amiable chat with you, mon amieand sister sweetwho loves this song from the 1940ssung by…

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