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The cruise industry registers as foreign companies to avoid paying US taxes. Now they want US bailout money. Now the same Republicans who say immigrants who pay US taxes shouldn’t get help are bending over…
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Notice What You Notice
At the Richmond Heights gym She resembled Kathy Kelly, hair-wise She walking on the treadmill Reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer
Three Working Epigraphs for Forthcoming Book
Everybody too intransigent. Everybody too mean. —Allen Ginsberg Appreciation is the sacrament. —Allen Ginsberg You have to write your own history, nobody’s going to do it for you. —Allen Ginsberg
If Not a Room, Perhaps a Shed
For Lala Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness and what…
Q & A in 1952
A meeting held a long time ago, put together by the Mattachine Society, had the distinction of being among the first times homosexual literature was publicly and sympathetically discussed. Held in 1952 or 1953, the…
Sanders and Warren Unite!
“Sanders and Warren are both fighting against the neoliberal policies of austerity. They are being attacked by Wall Street, the media, and the Democratic Party leadership. Rather than allow them to suffer death by a…
It Can Be So Appealing
Or let me tell you another story I heard about twenty years ago from a black civil rights activist who came up to study at Harvard Law School-it kind of illustrates some of the other…
The Real United States by Hedy Epstein
Not long after I came to the United States [later 1948], I began to work for the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) near New York’s City Hall and later in the agency’s shelter…
Seventeen Quotations from Glenn Gould in Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange
“Dying was a great career move for him.” —Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould “I gather my inner resources from the outdoors.” “Behind every silver lining there’s a…
Twenty-Eight Cullings on Glenn Gould from Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange–The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
I believe in God—Bach’s God. Glenn Gould Stayed out of the public eye, maintained his presence through a conspicuous absence. 9 Gould’s personality has certainly fueled his posthumous appeal. His eccentricity made him fascinating,…