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Laura Baudo Sillerman

Reading The New Yorker, Thinking About Daphne Merkin

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

Merkin's meticulous dissections of depression have set a standard for courage in the face of the mind's adversities. She confronts herself again and again in ways that are excruciatingly revealing.

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Judy Collins: Beauty Gets Down to Business

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

A mature audience couldn't find a better role model than Judy Collins, a recording artist whose latest CD includes a duet of "Diamonds and Rust" with Joan Baez. She's a businesswoman with the voice of a choir of angels.

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Judy Collins Goes Over the Rainbow

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

The new book Over the Rainbow comes with a CD soundtrack sung by Ms. Collins, and it is possible to believe one is actually being transported to another dimension when listening to it.

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Mary Karr, Fearless Web Warrior

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

The paperback edition of her searing, beautifully reviewed memoir, Lit, has hit the shelves, and Karr is striking out to stoke the sales buzz for a book that should be flying out the door all on its own.

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Millicent Borges Accardi: Woman on a Shaky Bridge

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

In my life, time, especially time to write, is what I fight for.

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Jeanne-Claude's Memorial Service. You Are Invited.

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

On Monday, April 26, 2010, thousands of celebrants walked through mournful rain to what could only be called a joyful Happening.

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Julie & Julia: Who's Cooking Now?

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Laura Baudo Sillerman

This is a note about what happens when a director in her sixties writes and directs a movie, about a young woman questing after the life once led by an older woman.

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Batting 1,000

Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Elizabeth Hemmerdinger

When I was a little girl, my grandfather taught me how to count. He cut a slot in the lid of a pickle jar and put all his change in it. When I'd vis...

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