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Staff Picks: MFA Microculture, Comfortable Middle Age
What we’ve been reading. The Cross of Redemption, James Baldwin’s uncollected prose. So absorbing I woke up thinking about it this morning, showered and shaved, and stepped back into the shower....
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Those Are Marshmallow Clouds Being Friendly
My first shift at the candy store was on the first day of October, my last just before New Year’s, but when I talk about it now, what I say is, “Last Christmas, when I worked at the candy store.” In...
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When Mad Men featured a kittenish cover of Gillian Hills’s “Zou Bisou Bisou,” it promptly started making waves on iTunes. One hopes their ending with the perennially macabre 1962 Crystals single “He...
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
Still from Woody Allen’s Manhattan Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd...
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Still from Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William...
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