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O’Neill at TEV

Mark Sarvas has posted a four-part interview with Joseph O’Neill. Look for a Netherland giveaway tomorrow.

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Love is a Four Letter Word events

Later this month and a couple times in the weeks following I’ll be reading from “Conversations You Have at Twenty,” my contribution to Love is a Four-Letter Word. Today at Paper Cuts, Gregory Cowles calls the anthology “pretty irresistible.” A “lot of it has to do with the tone,” he says. “[T]he usual regret, shame and pain are leavened here . . .

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The American Painter Emma Dial: proximity vs. creation

My appreciation of Samantha Peale’s The American Painter Emma Dial is up at NPR. Young artists often mistake proximity to the art world for the act of creation itself. Nowhere is this error more common than in New York City, where being able to paint and make rent is a question of finding “the right imbalance” between art and paying . . .

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