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ARETE
For the last 14 years Craig Raine’s astonishing stamina and drive has produced more than 40 issues of Areté, the arts triquarterly he edits. Raine is also a poet, sometime novelist and playwright, and...
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My Favourite Logo
Memory plays tricks. I could swear the little flat, round blue tin I hold in my hand looks the same as the one my mother used when I was little. Well, it does and it doesn’t. As far as the logo’s...
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Street Poet
Several evenings a week, from five to nine, poet Allan Andre settles himself amid the bustling crowds of Manhattan’s Union Square. A sign reading “Poem on Request” catches the eyes of passersby;...
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Reading List
DAILY: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post WEEKLY: Economist, New Yorker, New York, Bloomberg Business Week BI-WEEKLY: Fortune, Forbes, Grantâ€s Interest Rate Observer,...
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Love the Words
The Unterberg Poetry Center at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y in Manhattan is celebrating its 75th anniversary with an exhibition of posters, photographs and handwritten or typed notes and letters amassed...
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Wordsmith Breaks Silence
Robert Hutton, Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News This dictionary of journalese (with a British slant, but mostly instantly recognizable to American newspaper readers, too) started...
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Molecular Biologist
1 postdoc (noun/adj.) I conduct postdoctoral research in a research laboratory. My position in the lab is a postdoc, meaning that I have a Ph.D. and the work I do is what comes after that. From bottom...
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Seen
A Life in Books: A very quirky writer’s latest. Warren Lehrer, an award-winning self-described writer/designer, multidisciplinary artist, oral historian and educator, writes books that are very hard to...
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Nicky’s Midnight Mixtape
Making a CD was about the only thing Nicky Haslam hadnâ€t done—until now, that is. Heâ€s been an art director, artist, wild boy, hippie, suave consort, courtier, boulevardier, punk, cowboy...
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Cover to Cover
Benjamin Friedman has read the dictionary from cover to cover. It took him a decade—he detoured for a bit in order to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton—but otherwise he kept the volume by...
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