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The Cookbook Collector
Turn away long enough, and people think you have forgotten them entirely. Show your displeasure, and first they hate you, and then they despair, and finally, scarcely acknowledging it to themselves, they miss you. Change the game again, to see if they follow. The best ones can. The smart ones always do. – Allegra Goodman, ...
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“Kansas”, Vienna Teng
Musical Mondays: Kansas by Vienna Teng it’s not regret just an unexpected accounting of debts only now called no, it’s not regret just remembrance is all of how close we had come the war almost won but I sent up our flag and moved on Sometimes when it’s the end of summer, and you’re really ...
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Scenes from a Weekend Poetry Conference
When I see the students, I break into acne again, remembering my English teacher, tweedy breath and patched sleeves, when Dylan Thomas was young and easy under the apple trees and cummings slept with a lady named death. Nothing has changed. This boy wears a black beret, reads Ginsberg and howls. Back home, a perfect ...
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William Wegman
William Wegman is an American photographer who is best known for his photographs of dogs, namely his own Weimeraniers.
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“Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey,” Hayden Carruth
Scrambled eggs and whiskeyin the false-dawn light. Chicago,a sweet town, bleak, God knows,but sweet. Sometimes. Andweren’t we fine tonight?When Hank set up that limpingtreble roll behind memy horn just growled and I thought my heart would burst.And Brad M. pressing with thesoft stick and Joe-Annesinging low. Here we are nowin the White Tower, leaningon one ...
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“Spotlight” on Billy Wilder
You might not recognize him. He does not have a familiar face, unlike any other director or writer celebrity. But, he’s famous…. The titles of his most famous works are indeed recognizable: Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), and of course- Sunset Boulevard (1950). Born in Poland (at that time Austria-Hungry), on June ...
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Escher
Ever since my youth I’ve admired the line work of MC Escher. It’s astounding how the amount of effort and planning he had to put into his designs required such a meticulous and planned hand and mind, yet the ultimate point of many of his works is to let the viewer’s mind roam where it ...
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Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart. – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore Praised by The Guardian as “among the world’s greatest living novelists,” Haruki Murakami is prolific. Surrealist and post-modern, his writing his replete with pearls of wisdom — little gems about living, dying, ...
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“Volcano”, Damien Rice
Musical Mondays: Volcano by Damien Rice And what I am to you is not realWhat I am to you, you do not needWhat I am to you is not what you mean to meYou give me miles and miles of mountainsAnd I’ll ask for the sea Sometimes young love is just like this song. I’m ...
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The Fun Ride
It sometimes seems to me like everything important happens in July. Emily is born in July, on the twenty-second. I am bitten by a tick in July at age ten, and left with a bad case of Lyme disease for well over a decade. I save my sister’s life in July. As a child I ...
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Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered by many historians to be the father of photo-journalism. He was an early adopter of the 35mm and is well known for his street photography.
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“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying ...