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  • Arthur Mitchell 1934-2018

    September 19, 2018

    Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine   Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly        too rapid for the eye               to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels…

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  • To the ray-guns and fungibles, Cowgirls! FRASQ performances at the Générateur show how it could be done [by Tracy Danison]

    September 19, 2018

    [FRASQ] #10, “Rencontre de la performance”, begins its 10th year of multidisciplinary performance at the Générateur in Gentilly from 6 to 20 October 2018, it's worth a bus ride, let alone a mass. Photo©BertrandBousquet…

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  • Facsimile Mantelpiece [poem and photo by Angela Ball]

    September 16, 2018

    Ed note: A few weeks ago, Angela Ball visited David and me in Ithaca, NY.  One morning over coffee, Angela showed me pictures of her lovely home in Mississippi, where she lives and teaches.…

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  • “JA on the G Train” [by Thomas Moody]

    September 15, 2018

    We have gone to great pains translating the universeinto a forgettable vernacular. Life speaks to usin the New International Versionso that the day lacks a certain cadence, the nightany discernible yearning. A grocery listof…

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  • “Hick and Willie Get a Catalog from the ‘Atheist Collective’ Gallery” [by Jim Cummins]

    September 14, 2018

    Hick: "Got the mail.  Here's a list of 'Easter Fun Facts,' straight from Jesus. Did you know He suffered from 'Dysfunction, Resurrectile,' until His Father threw a thunderbolt projectile? It broke the stone to…

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  • Impossible! Simone de Beauvoir’s “Second Sex” not counted among France’s classics [by Tracy Danison]

    September 12, 2018

    An open letter the editorial committee, management, directors, share- and stakeholders of Gallimard and the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Impossible: Simone de Beauvoir’s signal contribution to world literature is absent from the Pleiade, France’s…

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