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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 14, 2022
Stephanie Burt's We Are Mermaids was published earlier this year. It's a delightful look at the emotional difficulties and triumphs of girlhood, the places of watery air and airy water, the brackishness of in-between spaces. The gorgeous…
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Festival Signes d’Automne 2022 at the Belleville Swan # 1: a right approach, time and place for contemporary dance [by Tracy Danison]
“Wel come” by Joachim Maudet with Pauline Bigot and Sophie Lèbre, cie Les Vagues, produced for “Festival Signes d’Automne” 2022, Regard du Cygne. Photo © Jean Gros-Abadie I ended the 2022 edition of the…
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Four Interesting Covers [by Lewis Saul]
A cover song is a new recording of a previously released song that someone else wrote. So the first two examples don't really fit that definition — they are more like transformations: Miles Davis was…
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Advice to Writers: Read Reviews at Your Risk
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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What does Sinatra stand for? (on his birthday)
On Sinatra's birthday: from a review in 2015https://www.thefranksinatra.com/books/sinatras-century-david-lehman-book <<< Sinatra’s Century is a recently published book, written by David Lehman. The full title of the book is: “Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man…
