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Delacroix Quiz: We Have a Winner!
Deanna Dorangrichia has won the Delacroix Quiz constructed by David Shapiro. Click here for the questions. Dorangrichia's answers follow: 1. Nicolò Paganini 2. Frédéric Chopin 3. Rumored to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand. …
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“To a Muse” [by David Shapiro]
To a Muse Give me a first line, you who are far away.The second line will almost write itself.In times of pain, I open the dictionary. Like a girl in the last row who…
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“Idylls (West Tropicana)” [by Alison Elizabeth Taylor]
How do you like this 2007 screenprint by Alison Elizabeth Taylor? It's called "Idylls (West Tropicana)." — DL
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Paris in the summer, when it sizzles
From the Hotel Montalembert on the rue du Bac you can see the Tour Eiffel. But what is the domed building in the left background? It looks like the Pantheon, but it can't be,…
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What’s Happening to Poetry at “The Paris Review”?
There's been an editorial change at The Paris Review — and a good deal of controversy attending the new editors' decision to reject previously accepted poems that had not yet appeared in print. The…
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“If I can’t have you” [by David Shapiro]
"If I can't have you" I don't want a districtI don't want a district attorneylike JobI don't want to get along get awayget beyond get togethergeyser and geyserite If I can't have youget obtain…
