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The Best Thanksgiving Ever [poem by Jennifer L. Knox]
After the meal, Sandy decided we should spice up charadesby slapping the loser’s butt with a ping-pong paddle.Whenever Ed got slapped, he farted because he was so nervous.The ladies won, slapped all the men’s…
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Phantom Signs: A Review of Philip Brady’s New Collection of Essays
Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe CityPhilip BradyThe University of Tennessee Press, 2019 Philip Brady’s new collection of essays, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City, assays the enthusiasms and hidden architectures of a…
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Paul Berman on Michael Walzer on “Tablet”
from Paul Berman [left] on Tablet in the second of a series of highly provocative and thoughtful essays on the American left and the dangers of anti-Semitism. <<< Michael Walzer has brought out a book…
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Scary Stuff: Paul Berman Reports On the Predicament of the Jews in France Today
<<<. . .in France, a great mass of Jews have lately undergone experiences that are unimaginable in the U.K. Some 50,000 French Jews, or 10 percent of the entire Jewish population, are said to have…
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The Best American Poetry 2018 at the Southern California Poetry Festival Sunday, November 18, 6:00 PM
At Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center *681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 November 18, 6:00 p.m. *Free
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Fats Waller Live in 1935 [by David Lehman]
You and I both know why“all my blondes and brunettes”become“all my Harlem coquettes”when Fats Waller sings“Lulu’s Back in Town”after playing it on the pianoin 1935. Think of that: in 1935when everyone was supposedto be…
