Archive for December, 2006

On the verge of his first manic episode, Robert Lowell led a pre-McCarthy era crusade against a Yaddo director for, ahem, “colluding with” a Communist.

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Last week I sat with some fine people around the Algonquin’s round table, and imagined Mrs. Parker’s ghost wincing at my jokes. Lance Mannion checked for initials carved in the wood.

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Paul Maslansky plans to adapt Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter. His credits, says TEV, don’t inspire optimism.

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Not an Onion headline, #517: “Three Cheers for the Patriarchy: Pride and prejudiced English professors.”

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Narrative and the photobooth, and the 2006 ITP show

Imagine a battalion of artists and mad scientists turned loose on the set of Dr. Who for a semester, and you might be envisioning something like NYU’s annual ITP show. It’s a youth fair for grown people who always wanted a TARDIS. Also, it’s free and open to the public, and, if you go — tonight’s the last night — . . .

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