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Since She Went Away, David Bell, New American Library, $16.99.

Posted on June 24, 2016 by ubu507

If you want a compelling reading experience, just pick up a David Bell book. Reading the first page can be like leaning over a suspense generating machine — the gears of the story will grab any loose time you have … Continue reading →

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Apollo and Daphne

Posted on June 22, 2016 by ubu507

PELLEGRINI, Giovanni Antonio c. 1704 Fresco Villa Alessandri, Mira “Father, if your waters still hold charms to save your daughter, cover with green earth this body I wear too well,” and as she spoke a soaring drowsiness possessed her; growing … Continue reading →

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“The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial” by Maggie Nelson, Graywolf, $16 and “Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search For Truth and Justice” by Emily Winslow, Morrow, $29.99.

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ubu507

  I recently read two great true crime narratives, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson and Jane Doe January: My Twenty Year Search For  Truth and Justice by Emily Winslow, that started me thinking about the … Continue reading →

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The Stairs

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ubu507

circa 1899 James Jebusa Shannon Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

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Fire and Ice

Posted on June 10, 2016 by ubu507

Photo of girl in white bathing suit standing atop blocks of ice supported by a sheet of “Tuf-flex” glass over a raging fire. from the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company Records, The Ward M. Cannaday Center, University Libraries, Toledo, Ohio

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The Polk Penguin Conservation Center

Posted on June 9, 2016 by ubu507
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Terrestrial Object

Posted on June 7, 2016 by ubu507
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Gertrude Elizabeth, née Blood, Lady Colin Campbell

Posted on June 1, 2016 by ubu507

c. 1897 Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) National Portrait Gallery, London

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2 JOAN BENNETT WYETH

Posted on May 29, 2016 by ubu507

  Always Saying: “Oh, my dear, I don’t believe it.”

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Venus

Posted on May 27, 2016 by ubu507

PALMA VECCHIO c. 1520 Oil on canvas, 113 x 186 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

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