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The Volcano Pilgrim
Beat Generation, Classics, Film, Jazz Age, Language, Music, News, Poetry, Politics, Russian, Technology, Transcendentalism 1. Japanese search parties have found the remains of poet and volcano...
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A Walden Play
Arabic, Classics, Drama, Events, Film, Jewish, New York City, Psychology, Transcendentalism I've been working hard, and I really need this three-day weekend coming my way. Hell yeah! Another surprise...
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American, Beat Generation, Being A Writer, Classics, Comix, Litkicks, Publishing, Technology, Transcendentalism, Visual Art1. Thank you to my generous readers for allowing me to workshop my memoir on...
View ArticleWhere I'm From 2010
American, Beat Generation, Classics, Comedy, French, Hiphop, Music, New York City, News, Transcendentalism, Tributes1. Forest Hills. I don't know these people but I feel like I do.
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Keeping Emerson Around
Classics, TranscendentalismAn amusing Chronicle of Higher Education article by William Major and Bryan Sinche calling for the delisting of Ralph Waldo Emerson from the literary canon has been making...
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Take Care Of Your Shoes
Beat Generation, British, Classics, Fiction, History, Internet Culture, La Boheme, Love, Modernism, News, Poetry, Transcendentalism, Transgressive1. "Whatever you do, take care of your shoes" --...
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The German Genius By Peter Watson
Classics, Eastern European, History, Reviews, TranscendentalismHas anyone misplaced a renaissance? Say, a Germanic one, about two centuries old?We all might have, according to cultural historian Peter...
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Philosophy Weekend: Outside of Society
Existential, History, Politics, Summer Of Love, Transcendentalism"Outside of society!" shouts Patti Smith in one of her best songs, Rock and Roll Nigger. The phrase expresses not a reality but rather...
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New Books Report: Sepulveda's Shadow, Civil War Literature, A Vonnegut...
American, Being A Writer, Classics, History, Latin, Politics, Postmodernism, Reviews, TranscendentalismHere are three books I've recently enjoyed. I'll cover a couple more next week as well.The Shadow...
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Philosophy Weekend: Three Quotes
Classics, Existential, Nature, TranscendentalismThree quotes I like, not necessarily related in any particular way:When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and...
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Philosophy Weekend: Nietzsche in America
American, Eastern European, Existential, Religion, Reviews, Transcendentalism, Transgressive"On Sunday, April 27, 1913, in her Yonkers, New York, home, sixty-seven-year-old Jennie Hintz tried a new way...
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Chelsea Redux
American, Classics, Events, Film, Nature, New York City, News, Politics, Transcendentalism, Transgressive, Visual Art1. This looks to be pretty special:The Tenant’s Association of the Chelsea Hotel...
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Philosophy Weekend: Kant on Beauty
Classics, Eastern European, Existential, Nature, Romantic, Transcendentalism, Visual Art(Today's blog post is by a guest philosopher, Tim Hawken, who lives in Western Australia and is the author of two...
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Yoko Ono, Visionary
Eastern, Love, Music, Nature, Politics, Postmodernism, Transcendentalism, Tributes, Visual ArtThe last time I saw Yoko Ono in concert, which was just a year ago, I was handed a small blue plastic...
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Fitzgerald's Lost Souls, or the Infernal Gatsby
American, Classics, Fiction, Film, Jazz Age, Lit-Crit, Love, New York City, Reading, Religion, TranscendentalismIf you're trying to analyze F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age novel The Great Gatsby and...
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Philosophy Weekend: John Calhoun and Confederate Ethics
American, Big Thinking, Biography, Classics, Existential, History, Politics, Religion, Southern, TranscendentalismThis seems to be a primal aspect of human nature: we always believe ourselves to be...
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Sparta by Roxana Robinson
American, Classics, Fiction, History, Love, New York City, Psychology, TranscendentalismA Roxana Robinson novel will never waste your time with characters who are fashionably bored.Robinson's...
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Philosophy Weekend: The Collective Self
Big Thinking, Ecology, Economics, Existential, Internet Culture, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Religion, TranscendentalismThe psychologist Carl Jung wrote of the collective unconscious, a source...
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Philosophy Weekend: The Biggest Climate March In History
Ecology, Events, Existential, Memes, Nature, New York City, News, Politics, TranscendentalismNothing I can write today will be as relevant as an event that took place in New York City and various other...
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When Bob Dylan Rambles Into Town
American, Audio Literature, Beat Generation, Big Thinking, Classics, History, Love, Music, Poetry, Psychology, Reviews, Southern, Summer Of Love, TranscendentalismA strange kind of anxiety can occur...
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