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The Glass Coffin
Friday May 17, 2013
It seems rather ghastly now, given that he is serving a sentence of nineteen-years-to-life for murdering a cocktail waitress, but when I was in high school, I became obsessed with music producer Phil Spector....
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An Orchestra Against Ignorance
Thursday May 16, 2013
The alumni magazine of Brown University, my alma mater, begins its article on a unique orchestra like this: “We are an orchestra against ignorance.” That’s how Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim describes the West-Eastern Divan, which consists of young musicians hailing from Israel and its Arab neighbors....
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A Corporal Work of Mercy
Wednesday May 15, 2013
I was nearly two weeks late, so I already knew the answer, but I took the test anyway, in the bathroom of my dad’s house in Louisiana. We’d driven down from Virginia, two solid days in the car with our children, ages seven and two. My sister drove her two days from Kansas....
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Deliver Us from Evil
Tuesday May 14, 2013
The day after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, I sat myself down and considered my role in the tragedy. Now bombs have exploded in Boston and I’m asking myself the same question....
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Two Tribes: Good Wishes and Good Works
Monday May 13, 2013
One summer my family got evicted from the house we were renting in Florida. The welding jobs ended and my stepfather refused to do anything that wasn’t union work so we burned through our money while he watched television and waited for the union to call....
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Artist of the Month
Stephen Cushman
Lisa Russ Spaar observed in a recent review in Image that the speakers in Stephen Cushman’s poems seem to do a lot of walking—beside creeks and oceans, up and down mountains....
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