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Advice to Writers: Read Your Reviews at Your Own Risk [by David Lehman]
But I've been lucky this week. . . DL <<<David Lehman’s “Sinatra’s Century” is a much shorter but more intimate portrait [than James Kaplan's biography]. Many of the same anecdotes used by Kaplan can…
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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood-Lehman; Ghost Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
My final "Medium of the Month" post over at the Inquisitive Eater: Who better to usher in Halloween than Edgar Allan Poe, the master of horror, suspense, and the macabre. Does your lifelong fear…
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A Postmortem: On His Beloved Cubs [by Peter Ferry]
There still is joy in Wrigleyville — though the mighty Cubs have struck out. And out and out and out. In fact, they led the majors in strikeouts with a team total of 1,518. …
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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood-Lehman; Ghost Poet: John Ciardi
I'm continuing my stint as Medium of the Month over at the Inquisitive Eater. Here's my most recent post: Today’s ghost poet is John Ciardi (1916-1986). In addition to being a professor and prolific…
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David Lehman: Featured Creative at Ideasmyth
To help us celebrate the publication of David's Sinatra's Century: One-hundred Notes on the Man and His World, Victoria Rowan over at Ideasmyth has made David her "Featured Creative" this week. Here's the first…
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Neighborhood Bully (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
I have been thinking about Israel a lot in the last few months as I finished off work on a new book titled The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress.…
