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A Nearly Invisible Pin | by Andrea Cohen
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A Death Scene | Hadrian Hazlitt
An old woman is dying on her bed. Her husband is sitting by her side, clasping her hand with his wrinkled hands and through the open window a breeze slinks in and embraces the couple as the day is dying fast. But neither of them notices these. It isn’t worth admiring the beauty of sunset…
A Talk with Friedrich Nietzsche [by Adam Zagajewski]
Most highly respected Professor Nietzsche, sometimes I seem to see you on a sanatorium terrace at dawn with fog descending and song bursting the throats of the birds. Not tall, head like a bullet, you compose a new book and a strange energy hovers around you. Your thoughts parade like enormous armies. You know now…
“Schmaltz Alert” [by Amy Gerstler]
Schmaltz Alert One whole loaf of bread, a baguette sliced lengthwise in half though of course they never say baguette in Vienna, they had other words in that slightly grimy dark bar where I first saw it displayed in a poorly lit glass case next to a plate of what I mistook for burnt chocolate…
The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Four): Joel Stein [by Angela Ball]
Through a Country You, on the one hand, see a land Green and rolling With chalky marble And stretches of yellowed sandstone Patched here and there into the hills, Coming up for air after eons of sleep. While I on the other hand say Here collisions occurred A hundred million moons ago With valleys…
“Just call me George.” [by Peter Martins]
New York City Ballet rehearsal for “Chaconne” with George Balanchine, Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell “Après moi, le board,” Balanchine said to me near the end of his life. I guess he wasn’t completely sure about me or the future. The Board was always starstruck by [George Balanchine], and the dancers adored him. He was…