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Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012 | Books
Read More: 2011 Books, Best Books 2011, Bob Holman, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jack Kerouac, New-Years-2012, Thelma Adams, Denis Johnson, Phoebe Hoban, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anne Waldman, Walter Isaacson, Gail Levin, Books News
Regina Weinreich

Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

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Varied Carols

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 08.06.2011 | Books
Read More: Renga, Bob Holman, Nepal, Poetry, Books, Books News
Carol Muske-Dukes

Bob Holman, my friend, fellow poet and co-editor of Crossing State Lines: An American Renga is in Kathmandu. It is not at all unusual for Bob to turn ...

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We're Giving Our Money Away

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Blaise Pascal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Luciano Martinengo, Orwell?S 1984, Astor Place, Europa 51, Astro Place, Kubrick?S 2001, Ingrid Bergman, Silvana Mangano, The Rise of Louis XIV, I Am Astro Place, Catholic Church, The Age of the Medici, Descartes, Bob Holman, The Flowers of Saint Francis, One Class, Communist Party, Governors Island, Ivo Van Hove, Roberto Rossellini, Turner Classic Movies, Italy 76, Bowery Poetry Club, Lincoln Center Festival, Steve Katz, Jacket Magazine, Teorema, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

Europa '51 is very rare, not available on DVD, but this Friday, August 6, at 6 p.m. EDT, Turner Classic Movies will run it. I urge you to see it.

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Catharsis and Celebration

Ben Evans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Poets, Bob Holman, Poetry, Terese Svoboda, Fogged Clarity, David Groff, David Matias, Michael Tyrell, Stuart Bogie, Concealed, Arts News
Ben Evans

The art that I am attracted to all seems, in one way or another, to be an exposition of some mercurial ache present in the human experience.

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In and Out of Africa: Banning, Nora and Timbila

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwe, Bob Holman, Timbila, Banning Eyre, Nora Balaban, Mbila, Mbira, East Village, World News
Michal Shapiro

About a month ago, I videotaped the band "Timbila" at their CD release party. Something happens when one observes a band through a camera. I found myself thinking that there was a story here.

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Last Night at Nikos

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: LOOT: Lies of the Times, Dana Gioia, ?€ ?€œLife During the Coup, Semiotext(e), Greenwich Village, Union Square, Tom Disch, ?€ ?€œthe Coming of Fascism to America, The Fall, Nikos Magazine and Smoke Shop, Bob Holman, One Class, The School of Athens, G.H.W. Bush, Greece, Dustin Hoffman, Weather Underground, ?€œBartleby the Scrivener?, Madonna, Susan Sontag, Gulf War, Green Market, Judith Malina, ?€ Herman Melville, New York Times, ?€œI Am Astro Place, Bowery Poetry Club, Jefferson Market Library Garden, Tarsem, Chomskometer, Raphael, ?€œPolysexuality?, Healthy Living News
Norman MacAfee

"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.

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