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Oct.02.2009
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These are readings from the September 2009 In The Flesh (next one is Sex and Comedy night October 15th, then big blowout 4 year anniversary night with prizes November 19th). I will...
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Sep.24.2009
In his first address to the UN General Assembly, the President denounces reflexive anti-Americanism and calls on the world's leaders to recognize the common challenges we face while delivering a litany of internal accomplishments and policy changes his Administration has impleminted. Image Credit...
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Sep.16.2009
Cathy has been touring the blogosphere this past month and continues to do so. We'll have more links up for you soon. But starting today, Cathy begins her physical book tour at Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, New York. Some other tour stops in New York include Amherst, Brockport and Ithaca....
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Sep.12.2009
Today, on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, many channels ran specials, some of which I DVR'ed. After watching one tonight, taped in 2002, interviewing photographers who captured images that day, watching unbelievable images documented that day, I felt compelled to write something - if not to honor...
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Sep.10.2009
So here it is, 2009. It is not a Tuesday with the clearest warm and welcoming sky.
I woke up and listened to the AM radio. I heard there was a fire. I called my friend, tried to tell her to get out. I never reached her, but she got out. Most of the people I know did get out and a few did not. Of...
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Sep.10.2009
I loved seeing this piece in the NY Times, especially the photo: It reminded me of my days in publishing (albeit in the mid-nineties rather than the mid-eighties). We had computers instead of typewriters, of course, and we didn’t have those gigantic phones — but we did have cigarettes in hand and...
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Sep.09.2009
So I’m sitting here in the idyllic countryside of a Maine late August morning, leafing through a rather elderly issue of New York Magazine, checking out an article prosaically entitled “How Loud.. .” which offers up a handy guide to decibels for jackhammers, taxi horns, and all that city...
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Sep.07.2009
I was listening to WNYC today enjoying some air conditioning and a blanket. Now, if i had a hammock I would have preferred to sway in the breezy day outside but here I was. With radio on and remote control in hand I listened to one of the reasons these people got some of my unemployed freelancer's...
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Sep.04.2009
MY FIRST REALLY NICE FOUNTAIN PEN
It's the summer of '57. America has never been more prosperous--or more paranoid. The serpent of Communism lurks in our post war Eden, threatening to tempt us, corrupt us, brainwash us, conquer us by...
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Aug.27.2009
To introduce the next of my Palestinian crime novels, THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, my friend videographer David Blumenfeld filmed in New York (where the book takes place). His montages are mainly from Brooklyn's Bay Ridge and Coney Island sections. He then recorded me, looking sweaty and frankly a bit...
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