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  • Amapola & Besame Mucho, Cielito Lindo & Granada [sung by Juan Diego Florez] & Benny Goodman’s “Amapola”

    June 3, 2025

    Great singer. . .and also listen to Benny Goodman on the clarinet  

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  • How Reviewers at the NY Times treated Fitzgerald, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, et al

    June 3, 2025

    YThis is how reviewers at the NY Times treated certain books: Scott Fitzgerald:“Bad news is best blurted out at once: ‘Tender Is the Night’ is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging…

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  • The Ashbery Influence [by David Lehman]

    June 2, 2025

    Do not underestimate JA's influence. In 1989 I wrote a poem titled "One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay." It appeared in the New York Review of Books and has been anthologized in The…

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  • Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe, June 1, 1926!

    June 1, 2025

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  • D. Nurkse: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 1, 2025

                                ________________________________________ Dominant Harmony   In that dream I pinched myself and my father said No! You cannot wake by suffering.…

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  • What makes an American “classic”?’ [by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes]

    May 31, 2025

    A special issue of NEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL (© Göttingen University Press) devoted to a forum on the subject of "classics" and American literature includes     'What makes an American “classic“?' by Caterina…

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