Thirsty Nass-supporter: I would be honored to have a verbatim-writing credit.
Overheard on the Sixth Floor
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In the Glow of this Candle
“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”
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Verbal Knockout
“This was never going to be a simple game with a clear winner. From the start, this boxing match was set up to be a rivalry. It would last nineteen years and counting.”
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A Summer of Luddism
“I didn’t even think about my phone at all, didn’t start at a phantom buzz in my pocket or stop what I was doing to look over at the device when I thought I saw its screen light up.”
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The Wyeths: A Family Portrait
“The Wyeth saga began with N.C.: a maverick unimpressed by his industrializing world who became infatuated instead with adventure, romance, and old America––back when the connection between humanity and nature was more immediate.”
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Nostalgia Architects
“With too much text to see or read, / I imagine the storm of a thousand paper cranes.”
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Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home
“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”
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For Yan Pei-Ming, One Portrait Size Fits All
“As I sat on the bench in the center of the exhibition room, dwarfed by the mammoth panels of the tryptic, I considered my reaction.”