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Book Interview: Talking to BrownMark about “Life in the Purple Kingdom”

September 19, 2020
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Front and center in this memoir are BrownMark’s efforts to reconcile his resentment and gratitude toward the man who both sold him short and afforded him the “opportunity of a lifetime.”

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 13, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 1, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Poetry Review: A “Memorial” Written in a Voice That Does Not Break

September 23, 2012
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Alice Oswald’s “Memorial” begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship’s roll. If you know the old stories, you’ll begin to recognize some names, and then start to look forward to others.

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Coming Attractions: July 30 through August 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 30, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Visual Arts: The Humanist Meets the Exorcist

February 21, 2009
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by Gary Schwartz Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus, 1521 The recently closed exhibition Images of Erasmus at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam rightly introduced Hieronymus Bosch into Erasmus’s sphere. Here are some unsuspected truths – well, at least possible truths – about the two of them.

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Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves

July 18, 2021
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Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.

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Author Interview: Fred Waitzkin on “Strange Love”

July 2, 2021
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.

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Book Review: Sanford Friedman’s Utterly Original “Conversations with Beethoven”

October 2, 2014
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How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.

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Album Roundup: Adventurous Solo Performances from Jazz Pianists

December 6, 2021
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Solo performance is still a way ahead for jazz pianists, judging from four CDs released in 2021.

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