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… Marie Antoinette impatient, and she asks her husband, the comparably effete Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), to … Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not in It,” and draws on a steady diet of new wave and post-punk amid more period-appropriate … costume dramas—in which Emily Dickinson elegantly needlepoints the phrase F My Life ; Catherine the Great …
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… an Ivy League school in the last five years, whether you studied chemistry or Celtic literature, you probably work at … to be dispossessed spends an inordinate amount of time comparing the gourmet kitchens of different website headquarters. The top digital companies in the Bay …
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… Kansas, that has grown from a minor curiosity for me to a compulsion. Although I doubt the rumors, a slight lick of … flutter of butterfly wings and hummingbirds. When my mother died, my sister and I went shopping for headstones in the … fake flowers and our mother’s image printed on it, which I also hated. My mother was a devotee of image, though, and I …
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… of the troupe, overhearing the conversation, accepted the compliment with similar graciousness, smiling at their … boundary not just between one form of art and another, but also between art and life, the aesthetic and the moral. Yet … mentions no names, only “handshake, exchange of names,” bodies described as nearly bodiless, no knees, elbows, or …
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… August 2014 evening, Claudia Emerson read from her forthcoming collection of poetry at the inaugural VQR Writers’ …
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… by Dostoyevsky The following post is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … I would use. Writing is what I know how to do, but it’s also a necessity. To me, there is not much more than the … Today , and on NPR. She can be reached through her website , on Twitter , and on Facebook . By Dawn Tripp …