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Tales, trivia, and tidbits from now and then.

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08/18/2020

Stupid and Primordial, That’s Me

Hitchhiking in Search of Michael Heizer's Double Negative

by Andrew Fedorov

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07/13/2020

Anchored

Marooned at home

by Eric Trump

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06/04/2020

Pedestrians

What we see the more we look

by Kay Ugwuede

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05/14/2020

Fishing for Farson

Negley Farson comes to the surface

by Rex Bowman

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04/30/2020

Playing in the Intersection

New York City's layered memories

by Brice Particelli

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04/27/2020

Community Matters

Relationships amid a pandemic

by Grace Segran

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04/13/2020

Personable Jesus

Revisiting Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus

by Colin Fleming

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04/06/2020

Truth, Social Justice, and the American Writer

Should art be a frontier of social justice?

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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03/30/2020

Memento Mori

Death and memory

by J.T. Murphy

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03/23/2020

The Sonnetization of Emily R

Memorizing Shakespeare’s sonnets

by Emily Rubin

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