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Oct.15.2011
AMERICAN AUTHORS AS ARTISTS
AMERICAN AUTHORS AS ARTISTS Last week I heard fabulous story on NPR about American authors. Guy Raz spoke with Alexander Nazaryan about how Americans don't deserve a Nobel Prize in Literature.  While I expected someone in an Andy Rooney voice curmudgeonly calling American authors cry babies,...
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Sep.01.2009
The Vatican to Vegas
LAS VEGAS: LOVE AND HATE Las Vegas used to be easy to hate. When I passed through a few times in college, I sensed what the place was exactly: cheap eats at bland buffets, Midwesterners blowing too much money in smoky casinos, and drunks everywhere. Elegant meant funky Egyptianesque costumes on...