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Who Said It? [by David Lehman]
Remember when the Sunday Times Book Review, frankly middlebrow and proud of it, used to run author's queries ("for a biography of Maxwell Anderson I would be grateful . . .") and legitimate questions…
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Andrei Codrescu Speaks Dada
<< To celebrate Nr. 13 of Maintenant, the organ of Dada refuseniks, Peter Carlaftes, the editor of Maintenant, the organ of Dada refuseniks, asked questions I answered as follows: Peter: With the passage of time…
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Eva Yerbabuena on the ‘Arte Flamenco’: the magic within flesh and bone [by Tracy Danison]
“Carne y hueso” – Flesh and bone – Eva Yerbabuena’s most recent creation will feature in July at the 31st annual Festival Arte Flamenco, in the city of Mont de Marsan If there are…
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Marilyn Monroe as Chanteuse [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday it is) sang — and sang well. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King…
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Next Line, Please: “If history can teach us anything…” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's prompt on Next Line, Please is inspired by that rare gem, the delivery of a great line. In The Godfather: Part II, when you hear Michael Corleone tell Tom Hagen, “If anything…
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Walt Whitman at 200: Brian Clements’s “Every Atom”
It's been a greattwo hundred years since you joined the raceand you're still out in frontby a length or more,Walt Whitman,whom I still see in the supermarket. — Alien Ginsberg See the celebration of…
