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Mary Jo Bang: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________________________________ A Film in Which I Play Everyone In scene two, silence is a sleeve, I’m an arm in it. In an outdated Hollywood magazine, I found a photo of someone…
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On Hoagy Carmichael’s Birthday: The Best Years of Our Lives
Dana Andrews ("Fred") left, and Teresa Wright ("Peggy"), steering the wheel, in The Best Years of Our Lives. Born today (November 22), Hoagy Carmichael plays the wounded sailor's Uncle Butch, the piano player who…
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Patriotism (after Mishima) [by Mitch Sisskind]
Okay, the people of Westhaven were angry that the presidential election would get rigged against R.L. Greene. R.L. Greene himself often said how an election is a right of free speech and interfering with…
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Carnets pour l’exile: Aina Alègre, “Réverbérations – Etude 8”: the drummer or the drum? [By Tracy Danison]
“Révérberations – Etude 8”, Aina Alègre: “Girl, I have a lot of uncontrolled movements”. Photo © Martin Argryroglo As the days go by on pretty much the same dull plan, an exile, as is…
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Grace Cavalieri’s Interviews [by Nin Andrews]
NA: I thought of you, Grace, when I attended an interview with Amore Towles, conducted by Jim Ryan, the president of the University of Virginia. The interview was such a disappointment. Ryan’s questions were…
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“To the Fugu” by Debbie Lim [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Debbie Lim’s “To the Fugu” takes the carnal intimacy of eating to its perilous limit with the seduction of the world’s most lethal delicacy. The poem is in the comic, erudite and slightly unnerving…
