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Theory of the “bise”: why social distancing alone won’t stop a Covid redux in France [by Tracy Danison]
Masked and distanced but pleased to be there. Audience at Ayelin Parolin’s "WEG" dance performance, 12 September 2020, during the Atelier de Paris Indispensable ! festival. Photo © Benoïte Fanton As I write, it…
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Soviet Humor
American reporter: "How's it going?" An engineer in Moscow (circa 1948-1989): "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." Preceded by a shrug. Followed by a shot of vodka.…
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Meet the Press: Iniquity Press, Vendetta Books & Big Hammer
Dante Di Stefano: How did Big Hammer and Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books come into being? Dave Roskos: Big Hammer & the press began in New Brunswick, New Jersey. I moved to New Brunswick on July 4,…
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“To Ford Madox Ford, Still in Heaven” [by Mary Maxwell]
Since, as you’ve said, There is room in this world for infinities of gods, would you mind too much if I made you one of mine? As genius loci, a sort of outsized daimon…
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John Ashbery’s “Therefore”
Consider the weight of the word therefore in "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and here, in "Uptick," from his 2009 book Planisphere: We were sitting there, and I made a joke about how it doesn’t dovetail:…
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Twice Told (a poem) and Bonjour Precipice (a picture) [by Geoff Young]
I was there, I’m sure of it, at the San FranciscoArt Institute to hear the Sun Ra Arkestra play in theCourtyard, late 70s, just as I was in New YorkCity, at Slug's Saloon, on…
