My Far-Flung Correspondent Michael Mirasol has set a new record in far-flinging himself. He writes: "This is a little mashup I wanted to see with Bud Luckey's immortal Sesame Street song meeting Robert Zemeckis's opening scene in CONTACT."
Part of the "This Must Be the Place" series of The Atlantic. URL leads to all entries in the series. Thanks to Jana J.Monji, who writes me: "I used to live in a loft space from a former factory but…
The painting at the top is by Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592).
Thanks for the link to Michael Jones.
• • •"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a…
Marie writes: In the wake of the 84th Academy Awards, I couldn't help but reflect upon all the films that have been deemed unworthy of recognition over the years, and with a measure of empathy - especially for the really…
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Charles Bukowski died on his day in 1994. His voice is open and fearless, romantic, honest. He probably has a whole generation of writers getting drunk and wondering why they can't write like that. ¶ ¶ In Big Ed's during…
Realizing I would never read his great book, I got the audiobook and entered the world of the charming Mr. Pepys. Ambitious, lustful, a gossip, well-connected, he witnessed the Great London Fire, the Black Plague and Shakespeare's plays at court,…
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