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Buy Elvis’s Library Card
Elvis Presley’s 1948 library card can be yours. At thirteen, The King checked out The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson For Young Readers from his high-school library. We appreciate this peek...
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The Mail Room
When the United States Postal Service finally expires, what will you remember? When the last ornate post office is sold off for “mixed-used development” and all postage is reduced to digital...
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Move Over, Big Town
More calculated than you’d think. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Last night, a circa-1877 water main burst on Fifth Avenue near East Thirteenth Street, resulting in substantial flooding and, one imagines, a...
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The King and I
Auctioning off the Elvis memorabilia at Graceland Too. Photo: Eileen Townsend The Absolute Auction of Graceland Too was over in one fell swoop. This past Saturday morning, about a hundred warmly...
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Conspiracy Theories
From the cover of the “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” single. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the...
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There’s the Great Man
Befriending George Plimpton.George Plimpton in his office.George’s questions were like trampolines, a technology he admired. They bounced you higher—to the next question. This was particularly true...
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From Eternity to Here: Remembering Pearl Harbor
The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Summoning Pearl Harbor is a slim, unique work by the renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov that delves into what it means to recall a significant...
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The Man Who Spent Four Decades Interviewing Teen Stars
For more than forty years, between 1946 and 1988, Edwin Miller, the entertainment editor at Seventeen Magazine, conducted interviews with actors, musicians, and a few writers. His subjects were...
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Buy Elvis’s Library Card
Elvis Presley’s 1948 library card can be yours. At thirteen, The King checked out The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson For Young Readers from his high-school library. We appreciate this peek...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Mail Room
When the United States Postal Service finally expires, what will you remember? When the last ornate post office is sold off for “mixed-used development” and all postage is reduced to digital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Move Over, Big Town
More calculated than you’d think. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Last night, a circa-1877 water main burst on Fifth Avenue near East Thirteenth Street, resulting in substantial flooding and, one imagines, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The King and I
Auctioning off the Elvis memorabilia at Graceland Too. Photo: Eileen Townsend The Absolute Auction of Graceland Too was over in one fell swoop. This past Saturday morning, about a hundred warmly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conspiracy Theories
From the cover of the “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” single. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There’s the Great Man
Befriending George Plimpton. George Plimpton in his office. George’s questions were like trampolines, a technology he admired. They bounced you higher—to the next question. This was particularly true...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Eternity to Here: Remembering Pearl Harbor
The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Summoning Pearl Harbor is a slim, unique work by the renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov that delves into what it means to recall a significant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Man Who Spent Four Decades Interviewing Teen Stars
For more than forty years, between 1946 and 1988, Edwin Miller, the entertainment editor at Seventeen Magazine, conducted interviews with actors, musicians, and a few writers. His subjects were...
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