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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Photographers (Grit Laskin)

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Pete Seeger didn't write this ribald little ditty (it's by Canadian songwriter and guitar maker Grit Laskin ), but he did record it,...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Night piece (City)

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One evening he was returning home from a weekend trip a few hours away. He had planned to avoid the city but had missed a sign, and not know...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The use of memory (Carla Rippey)

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The artist and printmaker Carla Rippey is a native of Kansas City who has lived and worked principally in Mexico since the 1970s, long enoug...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Welcome

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This blog is the successor to the web journal / electronic broadside of the same name which I began in 2004. I have reposted and backdated h...
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Night piece (Frenzy)

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High on the bluffs, in a bare room looking out on the city, a man waits for the approach of night. He stands by one window, his back against...
Monday, March 09, 2009

Without a ghost (conclusion)

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She motioned to the waitress for the handwritten bill, then folded a ten and a couple of singles neatly under her empty coffee cup. As she p...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Without a ghost (II)

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At the corner of 57th street she waited until a downtown bus pulled along the curb, stepped inside, fished a token out of her purse and drop...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Without a ghost (I)

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She stayed on in the office after the others had left, doing a bit of cleanup on an article that had been passed on to her for a quick polis...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Winter pieces (V)

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He walked down the quiet street, feeling the evening damp on his face and neck, keeping his hands warm in the pockets of his coat. Along the...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Winter pieces (IV)

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It had snowed the morning before, six inches of soft powder, then after an afternoon of brilliant sun the temperature had dropped overnight ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Hitchhiker

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“There is amongst us a set of critics who seem to hold that every possible thought and image is traditional; who have no notion that there a...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Winter pieces (III)

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As the year waned and the days grew shorter she spent most of her weekend morning hours in bed, asleep if she could stay asleep or just thin...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Full Service No Waiting

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According to the liner notes to this 1997 record by Peter Case , “this album was composed on a '60s Smith Corona manual acoustic word pr...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Bread

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She stood by the sink looking out through the window. It was dusk and a line of crows were passing above the bare trees, all flying in the s...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Guy Fleming jackets

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Who was, or is, Guy Fleming? He's not mentioned in Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger's By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design ,...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Notebook

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At one time during his adolescence he spent endless hours flipping through LPs in the local record stores, riffling through the bargain bins...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Notebook

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Wraiths Many years ago, when I was a kid, I remember someone demonstrating how you could catch a frog by peeling off the red cellophane stri...
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