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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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Tagged Amelia Earhart, Austen, Baldwin, Book Review, Harry Houdini, Jonah, Lewis & Clark, Madame Curie, Marie Antoinette, Methuselah, Morrison, Napoleon Bonaparte, New York Times, Octavia Butler, Proust, Sappho, Shakespeare, The Dinner Party Writers Dream of, Tolstoy, Twain
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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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Tagged Alexandria King, Cambridge, Celeste Oliva, Central Square Theater, Charlotte Corday, Courtney O'Connor, Eliza Rose Fichter, French Revolution, Grounded, Lauren Gunderson, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Marianne Angelle, Marie Antoinette, MBTA, Nora Theatre Company, Olympe de Gouges, Red Line, reign of terror, The Revolutionists, Tom Stoppardly, Travesties
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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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Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Carliac, Carly Fiorina, Carly for America, CNN, Daily News, Dealbook, Fiorinistas, Ford to City: Drop Dead, Gerald Ford, happy hour debate, Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marie Antoinette, New Hampshire Union Leader, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Republican National Committee, Tom Perkins
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