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Paris Massascre, suite, 1: Monday comme un lundi [by Tracy Danison, Paris correspondent]
Flowers for Caroline, a girl who used to sit and take her coffee at the cafe while tapping her Mac, murdered at the Bataclan Understand that by Monday, November 16th, utter dismay has turned…
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Five Questions with Rob Casper, Head of the Poetry and Literature Center [by Matt Blakely]
The following post, which originally appeared on the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog, was written by Rob Casper, head of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress. Rob Casper…
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Keep Spreading the News: David Lehman talks Frank Sinatra, Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, NYC Sinatra at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York, c.1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb via the Library of Congress In a free,…
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Hitchcock Quiz # 6 – 9 [by David Lehman]
(6) Which of the following is not an authentic Hitchcock moment? — Grace Kelly cozies up with Harper's Bazaar while her beau, nursing a broken leg, takes a nap— Raymond Burr signs a contract…
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We miss you, Mark (Strand, 11 April, 1934 – 29 November, 2014) [by Moira Egan]
Strand in L'Aquila (wonderful, hospitable place; tragically affected by the earthquake), upon his having won the Laudomia Bonanni Prize in poetry, 2008. "Solemn truths! Lucid inescapable foolishness! None of that for me! To be the salt…
