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  • Said Disraeli to Gladstone. . .

    October 19, 2021

        At a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease." Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I…

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  • Flying Into the Unpredictable: Publishing During a Pandemic [by J. Chester Johnson]

    October 19, 2021

    (ed note: We checked in with J. Chester Johnson to find out how he's fared over the course of the last 18 plus months with the publication of his timely Damaged Heritage. Here's his…

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  • Greg McBride: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    October 17, 2021

                            __________________________________________________________ Sizes   My sister found our father’s ring, turquoise faded, sullied silver-plate.   It stopped my breath. Thirty years ago I…

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  • You Choose: Two Versions of “Autumn Song” [by W. H. Auden]

    October 14, 2021

    Now the leaves are falling fast,Nurse's flowers will not last,Nurses to their graves are gone,But the prams go rolling on. Whispering neighbours left and rightDaunt us from our true delight,Able hands are forced to…

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  • Listen: Tracy K. Smith Reads and discusses Kamilah Aisha Moon’s “Irony” and Louise Erdrich’s “Stone Love” from The Best American Poetry 2021

    October 14, 2021

     

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  • Louis Armstrong in 1934 & in Australia c. 1956 & on the Edsel Show

    October 13, 2021

    "I Cover the Waterfront" .  . Now you has jazz. . . with Crosby  & Sinatra & Rosemary Clooney: On the Sunny Side of the Street

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