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In case you hadn’t noticed when you tripped over your shoelaces this morning (right after waking up with your healthcare in jeopardy), it’s Friday the 13th, Western culture’s unluckiest of days. I recently learned that Friday the 13th is just another...

______________________ USA: Poetry: Robert Duncan and John Wieners (1965) by Richard O. Moore Legend of Black Mountain ROBERT DUNCAN AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE The poet Robert Duncan came to teach at Black Mountain in 1956, very near the end of the...

Reposted from THE ATLANTIC   As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the...

This post is sponsored by The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to...

CHINATOWN, THE MOVIE, made abundantly clear that the history of Los Angeles hinged on the history of water — the lack of it and the getting of it. Or, as LA’s legendary water superintendent William Mulholland once (dryly) observed about channeling water...