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Adrienne Kennedy and her son in 1970. Photo: Jack Robinson On Sunday, I’ll be in the audience of Adrienne Kennedy’s latest play, He Brought Her Home in a Box. To prepare for it, I thought I’d revisit...
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Rap, Poetry, and Cats
The London Olympics may be a couple of weeks away, but the poetry Olympics have already begun. Science-based art. The Elements of Style, as rap video. An appreciation of illustrator R.O. Blechman....
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Classics, Strunk and White style. “The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” And other surreal opening lines. Fans rally around San...
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Brain Pickings’s Maria Popova has curated a fantastic selection of books for the New York Public Library’s bookstore. And that’s not all: artist Kelli Anderson did a 3-D papercraft display based on...
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Speaking American
The varying temperaments of British and American storytelling. Lower Basswood Falls, Superior National Forest, July 1961. In 1890, a thirty-seven-year-old Scot named James F. Muirhead arrived in...
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The Font of Poetry, the Poetry of Font
Adventures in typography. Photo: Willi Heidelbach I was a teenage font addict. On Microsoft Word I’d lovingly scroll through the drop-down font menu: Avenir Book, Baskerville, Goudy, Goudy Old Style....
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Staff Picks: Sinners, Slavery, and Shults
Adrienne Kennedy and her son in 1970. Photo: Jack Robinson On Sunday, I’ll be in the audience of Adrienne Kennedy’s latest play, He Brought Her Home in a Box. To prepare for it, I thought I’d revisit...
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