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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Spill Links
About time: “Feds open criminal probe of Gulf oil spill.” Director James Cameron, “considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies,” met with scientists and officials from federal agencies “for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil…
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Andrei Voznesensky
“Mr. Voznesensky and poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina and Robert Rozhdestvensky burst onto the stage in the cultural ‘thaw’ that followed Stalin’s death in 1953 and rose to extraordinary stardom in the 1960s, filling whole stadiums for poetry readings…
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“Quietly and with confidence.”
“As if to say it’s risky, unknowable business, this living we do. As if to say all the fragile creatures of Boggs’s world—parents, children, husbands, and wives—dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness.…
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WTF Marc Maron
“It was pretty impulsive. I’d been fired again at Air America. My partner Brendan who was my producer for years on radio and on the internet, tv, we’d just lost our jobs but we still had our passcards, so we…
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“But a quarterly only comes out… well, you know.”
Lorin Stein, the new editor of The Paris Review, announces the launch of The Paris Review Daily, the quarterly’s new blog.
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Good News Out of NOLA
“The lack of secure bicycle parking was the motivation for Where Ya’ Rack?, a new program that aims to increase the number of racks around the city through sponsorships and donations, and ultimately to encourage more biking in the community.”…
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Louise Bourgeois
“Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last they shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the…
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Memorial Day
“It’s impossible for me, sitting at such enormous distance from the war in Vietnam, to understand the impact it had on those involved. Memorial Day is intended to be an opportunity for us to remember those who gave their lives…
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Paper Trail
“I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently a trend toward lesser quality print versions of books will…