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Joanna Sit: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________ Other Than Longing Every traveler knows a kind of despair other than longingAnd waits by the gate of departure…
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Can’t argue with Mozart
Why is Jerome Kern's picture here? Because he and Mozart shared a birthday!
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New directions or nude erections: the new “Next Line, Please” challenge
Next Line, Please “The Jester’s Magma” By David Lehman | May 19, 2025 Our new prompt: <<< Errors, mistakes, and slips of the tongue and pen are, as Freud taught us, neither innocent nor devoid of…
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“Rabbi Frankenstein” [by Mitch Sisskind]
That anyone could be named Rabbi FrankensteinSeemed impossible but Rabbi Frankenstein wasRabbi Frankenstein. That he had a glass eye alsoseemed impossible but there it definitely was. In the old days around1957…
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Echoes of 1968: Anne Sauvage, Atelier de Paris, June Events, public goods and the right to culture [By Tracy Danison]
“Là Sextet” by Pierre Pontvianne, June Events 2025. Photo © cieparc I had originally intended to put in a good word for “woke” with a chat about diversity, inclusion and living with the natural…
