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Dinah Fay

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Dinah Fay is a poet, copywriter, and social media maven living in Brooklyn. She is the co-host of the Brick City Speaks reading series in Newark, where she is pursuing an MFA in writing from Rutgers University.
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NYPL as Budget Hostage

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 29, 2015
A scathing indictment from Jim Dwyer at the New York Times this week accuses city leaders of depriving funding from the library system, and its mayors of holding the NYPL…
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Lear’s Metrical Madness

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 22, 2015
As part as the Shakespeare on Tor series, Brian Stavely brings us on a quick tour of King Lear’s descent into madness, as evidenced by a careful metrical reading of…
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Noodling about with Narratives

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 22, 2015
The introduction to Martin Solares’s How to Draw a Novel, currently in the process of English translation, takes on a cheerfully animated life of its own at LitHub. Solares discusses…
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Impending Death of a Dictionary

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 22, 2015
Much like the parochial vocabulary it strives to catalogue, the Dictionary of American Regional English is in danger of extinction. A stopgap crowdfunding campaign is currently open to support the…
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Buddies, Bishop and Gunn

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 15, 2015
Colm Toíbín, author of On Elizabeth Bishop, has a lovely long reflection at the Guardian about Bishop’s friendship with Thom Gunn, and the parallels in the artists’ life and work. Bishop and…
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Nightwalking with Dickens

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 15, 2015
Long walks are among the most common creative practices, we’re told, for writers from a certain era: Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Blake come quickly to mind. Matthew Beaumont’s new Nightwalking: A…
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Hip Hip for Howl

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 15, 2015
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, a veritable smorgasbord of celebrities came together at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles to put on a variety show for…
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Shelters for Families, and Books

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 9, 2015
Twenty homeless shelters serving NYC families will be getting their own libraries as part of a new initiative from the Departments of Education and Homeless Services. The project, supported by…
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Bedtime Reading with Charles Simic

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 8, 2015
Poet Charles Simic, in a piece on the NYRB blog, shares his quest for the perfect bedtime reading strategy. Simic turns to books to settle his mind for the night,…
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Derrida Goes to Princeton

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 8, 2015
New Jersey is about to get Poststructural, thanks to Princeton’s recent acquisition of Jacques Derrida’s library. The collection contains nearly 14,000 books, many of which bear marginalia from the celebrated…
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In the Batcave with Robert Moses

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 1, 2015
If you’ve been curious about Robert Moses but put off by the sheer heft of volumes like The Power Broker, a forthcoming comic book rendering of the master builder’s reign…
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Taylor Swift: Grammar Crusader?

  • Dinah Fay
  • April 1, 2015
Proving that the quest for high scores on the SAT is as tragically unhip as ever, The Princeton Review is making headlines for setting off a grammar grudge match with…
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