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On the Air with Bruce Kawin in the 1960s: Ashbery, Koch, Allen Ginsberg, Ayn Rand (!), & almost O’Hara
Ed. note: This is part two of "Borges and the Camels" by Bruce Kawin. When I took Kenneth Koch's class and for a few years afterward, I had a show on Columbia's student radio…
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Mike Fontaine, guest author April 13-17
Michael and Lola This week we welcome Mike Fontaine as our guest author. Mike is Professor of Classics at Cornell University, in the heart of New York State's Finger Lakes wine region. He specializes…
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Social Distancing as Modeled by Baseball Players [by Alan Ziegler]
Before the shutdown of all sports, I was able to enlist major league baseball players to demonstrate good and bad examples of social distancing. 1) This is a good, basic application of six-feet rule.…
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“Borges and the Camels” [by Bruce F. Kawin]
for John Ashbery Two stories from the mid-1960s. (1) When I was an English major at Columbia, I took a creative writing course from Kenneth Koch, who changed my life. Actually it was a…
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“STOP Window” [by Susan Gunter]
Susan E. Gunter is a professor, Henry James scholar, poet, and watercolor artist. She began painting eight years ago, working from her own photographs and using just three colors: Windsor blue, alizarin crimson,…
