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Monday, January 30, 2012 at 8:36AM Click on the page to make it larger.
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From top: From Vigil by Nancy Friedland, which is on February 2-26, 2012 at Katharine Mulherin's gallery ; A Different Kind of Delirium, Charles Baxter on Don DeLillo by way of Marina Abramović.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 8:54AM Click on the page to make it bigger.
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Clockwise from top left: Georgia O'Keeffe Blue Lines X, 1916 from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and found in The New York Review, January 12, 2012 ; the dietary regime of Balzac, from The New Yorker (password required) ; a strip of a painting by Sarah MacCulloch ; excerpt from The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt.
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 9:34AM ;)
Clockwise from top right: A line I wrote on a post-it ; great first line from Katrina Onstad ; a Swedish theory of Love? ; a card I bought in the parking lot of the Safeway in the Castro, San Francisco in 1997 ; women's necks from my grandmother's notebook; from an interview with Maureen Sabia.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:48AM ;)
Photo from an ad for The Stephen Lewis Foundation.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 10:40AM Click on the image to make it bigger.
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Clockwise from top: a nice 'r' ; Maev Beaty in Now Magazine ; The Unappreciated Benefits of Dyslexia ; a sampling from a review of The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem reviewed by Zsuzsi Gartner ; mind tricks.