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My Soirée With Napoleon, Madame Curie & Other Luminaries

So I was leafing through the New York Times Book Review the other day when I came across this piece about The Dinner Party Writers Dream Of. This year, our By the Book series of author interviews turned 10 — … Continue reading

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Dead Blogging ‘The Revolutionists’ at Central Square Theater

Well the Missus and I trundled over to Cambridge on Saturday (which is a colossal pain in the ass on weekends through December 17th) to catch the Nora Theatre Company’s production of The Revolutionists (through November 12) at Central Square Theater … Continue reading

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The Arts Seen in NYC (Long Day’s Journey Edition)

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and, say, it was swell. Except for the drive to get there, of course. We hit four – count ’em, four – major traffic jams on the … Continue reading

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Carly to NYT: Drop Dead

It all started when the New York Times’s Mr. Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, wrote this knee-buckling takedown last week of Carly Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard. Representative sample: [I]t is curious to those of us who have reported on her business career that there … Continue reading

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