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Review: The Green Book; An Observer’s Notebook by Amitava Kumar
An Observer’s Notebook is the third in the series after The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal and The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s ...
Marcia Marcus, Painter Rediscovered in Her Last Decade, Dies at 97
A popular downtown artist in the 1960s, she worked in obscurity after art world trends left her behind. Now her startlingly ...
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Marcia Marcus Was a Pioneer of Figuration in an Era That Prized Abstraction. Now, She’s Getting Her Due
Marcia Marcus passed away this month at age 97. Her works go on view along Alice Neel and Sylvia Sleigh at Levy Gorvy Dayan.
The Life and Struggles of a Truck Driver
There are work realities that feed on stereotypes and clichés, one of those influenced by them is the profession of the truck driver. To clear the field of all these prejudices, Marco Manna, a ...
How Craig Finn Made the Seventies L.A. Record of His Dreams
L.A. is this album? Finn poses for the cover photo on a bridge over the Harbor Freeway — the exact same bridge where Newman ...
The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder
As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin ...
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The American cultural boom a century on: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Louis Armstrong
American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to ...
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His homespun swing earned him Masters bid. Ten years later came tragedy
Jeff Thomas, a tough but troubled amateur from New Jersey, played in the 1994 Masters. A decade later, he died under tragic circumstances.
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His homespun swing earned him Masters bid. Ten years later came tragedy
Thomas wound up losing the match 8 and 7, but he was widely accused of gamesmanship, which friends say wasn’t his style ... sat a dog-eared copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, plus a ...