life after death | life after death
May.12.2013
Mom before polio
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I opened the door and, as I braved the champaca fumes and tinkling wind chimes, I thought: fire the art director for crimes of cliché. It was way too...
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Apr.02.2013
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT: Rose Chatfield-Taylor
HER INTERVIEWER: Anna De Koven
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Why not a medium? It should have been an obvious step long ago, when I was in my...
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Mar.19.2013
The adventurers in Paris
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He met her at...
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Feb.01.2013
Grandpa as un-serious fop
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I married for love at age...
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Dec.13.2012
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Tom Hulce received the go-ahead to direct a workshop of my musical Sleeparound Town. Artistic director Andre Bishop gave his blessing, in his distinctive...
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Oct.08.2012
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When I was in my twenties and researching a book, I studied the dark art of fleecing men. This technique, and the con women who taught it to me, were the subjects of...
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Sep.11.2012
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After a year spent in the Third World, everything at home seemed strange: food, TV, supermarket, smells, weather, piano, and home itself, the studio on my...
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Jul.24.2012
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I wanted to be sure that the priapic ghost behind me wasn’t local to Haiti and so, without turning around, I muttered the Muslim prayer I’d learned, “Bismillah...
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Jul.09.2012
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I planned to stay a month in Haiti to finish my book, a black comedy modeled after one of my favorites, Waugh’s Black Mischief. In the denouement, my heroine brings...
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Jun.12.2012
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The light of dawn began to fill the bedroom while I slept. Curled on one side, I woke to the sensation of a male body settling onto the bed behind me.
I’d read that if...
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