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Dream on!

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 05.13.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Russia, Dementia, Anna Karenina, Alzheimer's Dementia, Jewish, Nightmares, Alfred Adler, Anxiety, Gogol, Fifty News
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

My mother had dementia. She would call me crying that she had no shoes. When I got to her apartment, it was strewn with shoes, but she was out somewhere, wandering, lost. Every time I forget something, I shudder, sure it's the first sign of dementia.

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The Year of Reading Communally

Dave Astor | Posted 08.15.2012 | Books
Read More: Short Stories, Time-Travel Novels, Time Travel, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Henry Fielding, Gogol, Mary Shelley, Khaled Hosseini, Donald Westlake, Cats, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anton Chekhov, Jonathan Franzen, French Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Mordecai Richler, Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Chevalier, Dogs, Booth Tarkington, Jeffrey Eugenides, Books News
Dave Astor

My first "HuffPost Books" piece was posted a year ago this month, and I'd like to use that trivial anniversary to thank commenters for introducing me to many authors and novels I had never read before.

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Diary of A Madman. BAM Artist Talk: Geoffrey Rush & Neil Armfield

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Russia, Shine, Bam, Academy Awards, Sydney, Theatre, The Shining, The Oscars, NY Around Town, New York, Gogol, Geoffrey Rush, Cinema, Arts News
Lily Bevan

Although not a delusional madness like that of his glorious character Poprishchin, mincing around the stage like a "frightened insect on an agar plate...

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Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The King's Speech, Adam Rapp, Small Craft Warnings, The Hallway Trilogy, Theater, Tennessee Williams, Bobby Steggert, Scott Siegel, Broadway Musicals of 1921, Gogol, Yank!, Geoffrey Rush, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

DIARY OF A MADMAN *** out of **** BAM It's fitting that actor Geoffrey Rush should be cavorting onstage in The Diary Of A Madman just as his latest f...

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PHOTOS: Russian SNOBs Feast On Gogol At Savoy

The Huffington Post | Jude Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Russia, Russian Literature, Russian Magazine, Dinner Party, Snob Magazine, Gogol, Jude Stewart, Savoy Nyc, Savoy, Nyc, Snob, Slidepollajax, NY Around Town, Gogol Dinner, Food, NY Restaurants, New York News

Dinner parties succeed by various strategies. Some hosts ply you with drink; some pack your plate with delicacies; some impress with the sheer flatten...

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Nabokov, Mocha Dick, Hemingway, Herman Melville, Lolita Nabokov, Moby Dick, All the King's Men, The Fountainhead, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Huey Long, Ayn Rand, Gogol, Atlas Shrugged, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, Melville Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Slidepollajax, Poe, Tolstoy, Lolita, Constance Garnett, Books News

Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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How Not to Catch a Thief

David Dagan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Russia, Psychology, Gogol, Crime, Panic, Pickpocket, St. Petersburg, Healthy Living News
David Dagan

I was strolling on the edge of a park in St. Petersburg, debating where to stop for coffee, when I heard a commotion on the opposite sidewalk. A stou...

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Gogol Haunts The New Ukraine

The New York Review of Books | Timothy Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Viktor Yanukovych, Books, Viktor Yushchenko, Russian Literature, The Nose, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, Nikolai Gogol, Gogol, New York Review of Books, Books News

The best guide to the careers of Yanukovych, Yushchenko, and Tymoshenko is Nikolai Gogol, who brought the absurd to Russian literature. In his short s...

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Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: William Kentridge: Do You Believe in Magic?

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Don Quijote, Metropolitan Opera, William Kentridge, Duchamp, Stan Laurel, Obama, Apartheid, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, Shostakovich, Man Ray, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gertrude Stein, Tristam Shandy, Dada, Gogol, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2009-03-19-zpull.jpg William Kentridge does New York: a new exhibition at MoMA and a new opera at the Met cementKentridge's place at the apex of ambitious artists.

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