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Matthew Aquilone

Matthew Aquilone was born and raised in Brooklyn. He is currently completing his memoir, “Those Handsome Young Men.”
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    Displays of Affection

    I’m a reluctant decorator. Maybe it’s because I’m really a poet, or maybe because I’m a slob. Either way, despite a life long fascination with my own personal mise en scenes I’ve tried never to let the professional impulse sink…

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    The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, by Paul Russell

    Sibling rivalry takes many forms. Whether it’s Bart and Lisa Simpson choking each other in front of the television or Cain concussing his brother Abel the outcome is usually the same– someone always wins. There’s always a favorite, a golden…

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    Remake

    In college I painted myself as Caravaggio’s Bacchus. I was mad for the mad Italian painter then, and decorated my dorm room with postcards and illustrations. When my family took a trip to Rome,