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David Lehman’s Essential Sinatra Playlist
So many people ask David to name his essential Sinatra playlist, more so now with the buzz around his just published Sinatra’s Century. Here is his lucky 21: 1) All or Nothing at All…
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An Evening with Elizabeth Samet Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Klein Conference Room, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Room 510, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 Elizabeth Samet is the author of NO MAN'S LAND: PREPARING FOR WAR AND PEACE IN POST 9/11-AMERICA (Picador)…
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Tales of the Eighties: Kaypro, JUKI, WordStar, and Microjustification [by Alan Ziegler]
My first computer, in the early 1980s, is a Kaypro (C/PM operating system) bundled with WordStar (“the most popular word processor ever invented”) and a JUKI daisywheel printer. I select the Kaypro because…
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JUDITH HALL ON ANTHONY HECHT’S “GREEN, AN EPISTLE”
Anthony Hecht has said of this poem in blank verse paragraphs that it is “about ‘growing up’”; “about the disguises of Pride”; “about the infections of the ego”; “about . . . delusions”; “consuming…
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Poets on Thanksgiving: A Roundup [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was. Some of the…
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So You Think You’re Financially Literate: A Quiz [by David Lehman]
Have we taught a generation of college graduates to vilify capitalism without doing it the honor of knowing how it works? Spot checks at New York’s Penn Station reveal that a vast majority of…
