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The photo brings back what?
…a complex of …well … minor feelings. It was a pleasant day, as far as weather goes. It was Pigneto, an area of Rome that I like. I had been taking Italian classes at “Moby Dick” in Garbatella, meeting a … Continue reading
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Jack Winery and family, Pietown, NM, 1936
It’s the Great Depression and you can see it in their faces, even the baby’s. But they have dressed up for the WPA photographer: everyone is in their finest, except for Jack, whose oil-stained pants give away his probable profession … Continue reading
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Poor Brigid (Mary Astor): the ending of The Maltese Falcon (film)
Learn why the film ended this way in American, Hard-boiled and Noir: A Guide to the Film and Fiction
Time for the COUNTY FAIR !
Yes sir, time for cotton candy and brats, whirling rides that make you throw up, crowds that smell of smoke (and dope these days) and the livestock barns, the stock car racing. Damn, how did I do without it?
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Maya Lin: Ghost Forest – Madison Square Park,NYC
May 10 – November 14, 2021
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Niki de Saint Phalle
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Niki de Saint Phalle at MOMA PS1 in Queens
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American, Hard-boiled and Noir: a guide to the fiction and film.
At AMAZON This book takes a new approach to the American-ness of hard-boiled fiction and reprises the award-winning website detnovel.com. There are several new essays and author portraits, adding to the encyclopedic overview of the dark side of American detective … Continue reading
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Gets Me Through Days
That espresso pot, so coffee-stained now a veteran of the Covid Wars, grizzled and wiser like Grant writing his Memoirs after It was over: how do you thank a thing, stamped from metal in Milano, except to burnish it on … Continue reading
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Estonia, Upside Down
Disponible en Amérique du Nord sur Amazon!
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