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Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
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Great album. Paul Simon produced one of the songs (www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9LA...) and then later he took the guitar riff for a song of his own (www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4c...)
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Hot Shoppes
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On first looking at the picture of Henry's I thought it read HENRYJAMES.COM
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if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,”
People want action, this is action.
This is the highest form of doing something
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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It’s Samuel Beckett’s birthday! His is a simpler, somewhat more austere Montparnasse gravesite.
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It's interesting to think about 'Flesh' in relation to, say, Miranda July's 'All Fours,' a kind of celebratory fable about a woman's liberated sexual urges. A novel about the force of the male sex drive is going to be something much darker.
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(A few decades after his death a scowling cenotaph was erected for Baudelaire, sculpted by José de Charmoy after Rodin pulled out of the commission)
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In what has become a curious thread, here, on his birthday, is Charles Baudelaire's grave. He's in this prestigious cemetery because of his step-father Jacques Aupick, an Army general and ambassador with whom Baudelaire, hard to believe, didn't get along. But they rest together for eternity.
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Thank you--I've been wondering for years when this crazy book would get the 'rediscovered' treatment
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McDonald's, of course, takes an apostrophe, my apologies to Ray Kroc