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• Nypl: The New York Public Library is Facing a $47 Million City...

  

  nypl: The New York Public Library is facing a $47 million city budget cut that would force cutbacks to key free services that the public relies on, such as... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 CULTURE

• Weekly Reading Non-fiction, Fiction, and The Unchangeable Spots...

  

  Weekly Reading Non-fiction, fiction, and The Unchangeable Spots of non-fictional fiction. Or fictional non-fiction. Which is it? Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CULTURE

• 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Movie Review

  

  The Place Beyond the Pines is a few things. It’s a three-part generational study of repeating the sins of the father. Or not. It’s a crime and corruption... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Loosely Based on the Real Life Correspondence of the Poet Robert...

  

  Loosely based on the real life correspondence of the poet Robert Lowell and Flannery O’Connor, Frances and Bernard is the latest epistolary novel to hit the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Consolations “The Broken Part Heals Even Stronger Than The...

  

  Consolations “The broken part heals even stronger than the rest,” they say. But that takes awhile. And, “Hurry up,” the whole world says. They tap their feet. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 CULTURE

• Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Takes Us Through Her...

  

  Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel takes us through her childhood in Paris, London and New York during the Bell Epoch when things were “truly luxurious” in... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 CULTURE

• Falling is Alexandra Fuller’s Short Memoir on Kindle That...

  

  Falling is Alexandra Fuller’s short memoir on Kindle that chronicles the unraveling of her marriage. I had no idea she had anything new out recently. She is... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 CULTURE

• I Chose You. You Were a Bit Skinny, with a Scuffed Nose and a...

  

  I chose you. You were a bit skinny, with a scuffed nose and a calm soul. Once you came to live with me, the calmness was gone. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 CULTURE

• One of the Very Best Places to Be, and a Personal Favorite Of...

  

  One of the very best places to be, and a personal favorite of ours. Long live the independent bookstore. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 CULTURE

• Weekly Reading

  

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  Posted on 01 March 2013 CULTURE

• If There is More Powerful Living Actor Than Daniel Day-Lewis, I...

  

  If there is more powerful living actor than Daniel Day-Lewis, I know nothing. He made Abe Lincoln rise from history’s dead. He pounded the fists of injustice... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 CELEB, CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Forget the Missing Girl Mystery of It All. Gillian Flynn...

  

  Forget the missing girl mystery of it all. Gillian Flynn captures the terror of an industry in modern flux. I’d arrived in New York in the late 90’s, the last... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CULTURE

• Atmospheric and Nuanced, Director Christian Petzhold Delivers...

  

  Atmospheric and nuanced, director Christian Petzhold delivers his usual exploration of moral ambiguity against a cultured setting—this time, the stark... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Meriad: Paris 1914

  

  meriad: Paris 1914 Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 CULTURE

• Ben Fountain is My Hero. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk...

  

  Ben Fountain is my hero. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk flips the lid off the absurdities of America “at war.” When a group of soldiers returning from Iraq... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nothing is So Safe as a Habit, Even When the Habit is Faked. -...

  

  Nothing is so safe as a habit, even when the habit is faked.  - Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe,... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sebastian Faulks is the Master of Condensing Complex Experience...

  

  Sebastian Faulks is the master of condensing complex experience into eloquent period drama. Geoffrey goes off to war, and in his short time serving, lives out... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 CULTURE

• Katherine Boo’s Up-close Sociological Project, Behind The...

  

  Katherine Boo’s up-close sociological project, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, goes inside the slums to meet the... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 CULTURE

• Prodigious Kids Who Are Born to Excel at Something

  

  Prodigious kids who are born to excel at something (and their mothers who push their limits) whether its math or chess or athletics, make good documentary... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 CULTURE

• Bergen Norway—fjords, Smoked Salmon, and Two Edvards....

  

  Bergen Norway—fjords, smoked salmon, and two Edvards. Munch and Grieg. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 CULTURE