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Mr. Lucky Didn’t Know Who He Was [by David Lehman]
Cary Grant on location in Paris, France, for Charade, 1963 (Everett Collection) Arguably Hollywood’s handsomest leading man, Cary Grant was a big box-office draw: tall, sophisticated, devilishly debonair in dramas, suitably wacky in screwball…
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John Cowper Powys, 1872-1963 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Though not a Jew himself Powys somehowIntuited Kabbalistic teachings on humiliationThrough his sexual failures and constipationAs we learn in his Autobiography where he alsoSpares us the rodomontadian strutting wherebyLesser writers dramatize their accomplishmentsIn the bathroom…
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Star Black’s Portraits of Poets: from the BAP Gala, 9/25/08
Meghan O'Rourke Richard Howard Lee Upton Laura Cronk and David LehmanJohn Ashbery and Adam Zagajewski All photos by Star Black. Copyright (c) 2008 by Star Black. Adam Zagajewski was reading at NYU that evening,…
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Star Black’s Portraits of Poets: from the BAP Gala, 9/25/08
Meghan O'Rourke Richard Howard Lee Upton Laura Cronk and David LehmanJohn Ashbery and Adam Zagajewski All photos by Star Black. Copyright (c) 2008 by Star Black. Adam Zagajewski was reading at NYU that evening,…
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Two Translations of Rabelais: Required Reading
<<When the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings,…
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Two Translations of Rabelais: Required Reading
<<When the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings,…
