“Sleepless Nights” by Elizabeth Hardwick
. . Melancholy suffuses “Sleepless Nights.” A collage of memories, ruminations, vignettes, and character sketches, its 150 pages encompass a lifetime of poignant observations by a first-rate writer....
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. . Many readers are going to enjoy this rich, wise and entertaining novel, especially those of you who happen to be: Part of the art world. “An Object of Beauty” is a closely-observed story that...
View ArticleSic Transit Gloria Mundi (Example No. 1)
. On Thursday of this week The New York TImes reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has decided, after 42 years, to stop issuing to each museum visitor one of its signature admission buttons....
View ArticleAtlas and Patience in NYC
A gray afternoon in Manhattan on Wednesday. . Atlas at Rockefeller Center, 04/08/2015 at 4:00:13 PM . Patience the Lion at New York Public Library, 04-08-2015 (first at 4:12:00 PM; second at 4:12:12...
View ArticleNature and Protest in America
. Washington DC, Glover-Archbold Park, Friday, November 11, 2016 at 2:42 and 2:46 pm. . . New York City, Fifth Ave. at 30th St., Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 2:16 pm. . . .
View Article2017 Photographs: Manhattan Downsized in the Distance
. From the inside of a southbound Amtrak train in northern New Jersey, on April 12, 2017, at 6:10:26 PM (and yes, I still miss seeing the Twin Towers). .
View Article2017 Photographs: Mooning in NYC
. Early in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stage musical, Hamilton, during a scene set on the streets of Colonial New York City, the Schuyler Sisters — Angelica, Eliza (and Peggy) — sing an exuberant song in...
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