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  • How the Years Condemn

    May 12, 2025

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    Music

    Those Darn Gnomes’ first album The Years turns a decade old today. In honor of our least-loved record, please, hit play on a forgotten experimental metal oddity and take a look back at the early days of a local band at a key point in their (so-called) development. Read more

  • Psychodontics

    April 29, 2025

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    Nothings

    “Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next,” you cry, with a laugh. Read more

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    April 9, 2025

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    Nothings

    And blowing the most recent Pynchon news out of the water, Penguin Random House announced today the October 7th publication of Shadow Ticket, Pynchon’s latest novel. Read more

  • On the Horizon

    March 31, 2025

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    Nothings

    Word on two upcoming American Epics: Read more

  • Spring Has Come

    March 20, 2025

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    Nothings

    Spring has come. Perhaps there are sulla blossoms in the country. Here in the city is sun, and more rain than is really necessary. It cannot matter, can it? Even I suspect the growth of our child has nothing to do with time. Her name-wind will be here again; to soothe her face which is… Read more

  • She Liked the Drifting Away

    March 14, 2025

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    Fun typographical error from Tove Jansson’s Sun City, NYRB’s most recent book club pick. Read more

  • A Human Yo-Yo Gets to an Apocheir

    December 24, 2024

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    Nothings

    Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black Levi’s, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he’d look in on the Sailor’s Grave, his old tin can’s tavern on East Main Street. He got there by way of the Arcade, at the East Main… Read more

  • Blackberries

    October 27, 2024

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    Nothings

    Out under yellow bulbs at a long weathered table, Zoyd found himself trying to help Flash with the shock of meeting so many in-laws in one place, both men from time to time looking around fearfully, like unarmed visitors in a jungle clearing, as out beyond this particular patch of light Traverses and Beckers went… Read more

  • Comedy of Remarriage

    August 11, 2024

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    Nothings

    When Hannah and I got married nearly five years ago, we agreed to read vows of our own writing at the ceremony. When the time came for me to read my vows, I was so overcome with emotion I found the words on the paper could do nothing to capture the sensation of the moment,… Read more

Thought:

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”

James Baldwin