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“1980” [by Nin Andrews]
1980 was the year my advisor threw me out of his classfor being what he called “an unsavory element.”“If savory is salty, does that mean I’m sweet?”I asked. He didn’t laugh. He told me…
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The Loyalty of Toes [by Lera Auerbach]
Philippe Faraut's Sculpting Feet [Video Still Frame] 1. The Loyalty of Toes You need to fall, and more than once, before you learn to fly. Do the words fail me, or do I…
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On Hitchcock’s birthday, His Jokes, Heroes, Villains, and More: Multiple Choice [by David Lehman]
When August 13 falls on a Friday, as it does this year, let us honor Alfred Hitchcock, born on this August day. In the spirit of macabre and bemused jollity, I recommend…
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Summer of Fruit Tarts–Peach-O-Rama [by Barbara Hamby]
I go a little crazy when peaches are in season, which in North Florida is between the middle of June and the middle of August. We're a 45 minute drive from Georgia, which is…
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Eliot on Becket, and Beckett too
And yet it is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish…
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Robert McDowell: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________________________ Pissed at Bukowski I woke up at 2 a.m. pissed at Bukowski. I rolled…
