Features & Reviews
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The Napoleon of Not a Clue
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the most incoherent book title of 1907:
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The Monk and the Ghost
Three pages from Josef Váchal‘s Mnicha strasidlo (The Monk and the Ghost), a 1919 “flip book.”
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #5
Fred White, Age 86 Mission, Kansas “She was quite a doll and I didn’t want anybody else.” My wife, Helen, and I have been married sixty-five years. I met her in junior high school.
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you are a little bit happier than i am
Reading these poems makes me want to write and this is a book that I will probably come back to often when I feel stuck or uninspired. The poems in you are a little bit happier than i am feel…
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The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
What we’re witnessing in Arizona, and all across this country, is an ongoing moral tragedy.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/26 – 5/2:
This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild at Heart. Monday 4/26: Ladies, participate in a global experiment…
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The Last Book I Loved: Wuthering Heights
What is wrong with Emily Brontë? I want to make a house in her brain. I’m scared! I can’t tell you too much, because my sister is reading the book now and I don’t want to spoil anything.
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Lapham’s Bows to the Great Goddess
“Arts & Letters,” the Spring issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is perhaps the magazine’s most unabashed celebration of nostalgia yet, which is saying a lot for a publication that indulges as much in the work of Sappho and Seneca as it…
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Poetic License
About a month ago, I saw a story about a project being put together by a brand new production company. The project was called “Poetic License 100 Poems 100 Performers” and the idea was to get actors to perform their…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full…
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“The Stories Never Die”
“Liberty’s material is so relevant today it makes me feel, at age 84, that I am at the beginning,” says Robert Whiteman, who has devoted the last several years of his life to getting people interested in the old weekly.…
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Agatha Christie Was A Mess
“Her less-than-refined writerly day began with finding her notebook, which surely she’d leftright there. Then, having found a notebook (not the one she’d used yesterday), and staring in stunned amazement at the illegible chicken scratchings therein, she would finally settle down to…