From the Smithsonian: The artwork that took 30 years and 200 acres to create

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  Empty Frames

  June 14, 2022 · 2 min read

  Another great essay by the great Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Magazine, this one on junk art. Here’s an excerpt: “Empty Frames” “Only a couple of weeks after the draping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a…

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  Gallows Poetry, Anyone?

  April 11, 2023 · 2 min read

  Have you ever heard the name Chidiock Tichborne? My mother, who required us to memorize a poem every weekend, told me about him when I was very young. I was reminded of him earlier this week in an essay by…

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  Ernest Hemingway's Mother Rejects The Sun Also Rises

  October 18, 2022 · 1 min read

  Something I’ve learned about writing: You can’t assume that friends and family members will want to read your books and essays. Some won’t read them at all. (K doesn’t read my non-fiction writing because she…

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  M.C. Escher Is Now a Movie

  June 8, 2022 · 1 min read

  I became a fan of M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist, the moment I saw this print. His pictures seemed designed to draw me in and hold me in a way that was enticing but also disturbing. They are like some of Dali’s…

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  From a letter Charles Bukowski, at age 64, sent to his publisher in 1971

  November 22, 2022 · 1 min read

  “I now write from an old mind and an old body, long beyond the time when most men would ever think of continuing such a thing, but since I started so late I owe it to myself to continue, and when the words…

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