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Write Like I’m Hungry

…than a chronological survey. “Dolly’s musical work is variegated and folds back on itself,” Hamessley argues, “with all the melodic, harmonic, textual, and thematic overlaps that image brings.” Fittingly, some…

“You, Reader”

…that dead-end at the cubist sculpture called My Infinity, for I no longer light bonfires in the city of adulterers and no longer smudge the cheeks of debutantes hurriedly floating…

Dark Night Will Not Rob You of Your Way

…convey an altered sense of time passing, a suspension from normality best described by Eliza Griswold: “Every honest answer / is Not Yet.” Still others reveal surprising desires or habits…

Memphis Calling

…A Sputnik? Gordon: The revolutions you cite, none of them had any planning. You couldn’t go to Sun at any point and say, Oh yeah, I see what you’re doing,…

Pain and Radiance

…While their own authority on the commission comes into question, they must find a way to prevent their local government from any act, however small, that would lend legitimacy to…

Putting the Music First

…many luxury hotels, we had a lobby bar with a grand piano. I would sometimes receive a telephone call late at night from hotel security. “Sorry to bother you so…

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