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Poetry in Motion
A new book about the ad business, The Adman’s Dilemma, brings to light a rare attempt to monetize...
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Titanic Under Alles
I’m fresh from seeing a very strange movie called Titanic. Not the one with Kate Winslet and the...
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Too Misty
Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...
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Wondrous Italian Clarinet Player and — Well, See for Yourself….
Now and then I come across a song on Youtube I’d love to play on my radio show,...
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Goat Testicles in Other Hands
I got a modest check in the mail this week connected to my book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous...
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Rosa Bathurst
I was in Rome not long ago and went to visit the graveyard where Keats and Shelley are...
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Went to See the — No, I Can’t Say It
“Actors’ Equity Association…announced this week that it would cease using the title ‘Gypsy Robe’ to describe one of its most...
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Melodious Veep
You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s all in the...
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The Gone
Yesterday I got in touch with Alicia Mayer, the grandniece of Louis B. Mayer, in connection with some...
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Artificial Intelligence
World History for 11 points! In 1521, after the excommunication of this religious reformer, a Holy Roman Emperor...
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Unsolved
Famous Last Words: “Mrs. Tope’s care has spread a very neat, clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before...
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Double Doody
I learned yesterday that Carl Bernstein, the legendary Watergate reporter, won a Howdy Doody lookalike contest when he...