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Scrying for identity and the future in uncertain waters: Night Lunch by Mike Chaulk : Arc Poetry
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Hemingway was right: ‘There is no friend as loyal as a book.’
They are valued companions, fellow travelers, and I need them close at hand.
By Douglas McCollam
1:30 AM on May 16, 2021 CDT
When was the last time you held a book in your hand, ran your finger down its spine and silently rejoiced in the turning of a page? Or wandered aimlessly through the stacks at your local library, the smell of aging parchment filling your senses and touching that part of your mind that offers instant access to your memories? Sadly, in our brave new world books are increasingly recorded as ones and zeroes on distant hard drives, dwelling deep in the cloud, safe from the ravages of water, wind and time.
Are you in the market for a first-edition copy of Tom Wolfe’s debut novel,
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life?
Or maybe you’re looking for a fully operational 1929 Manikin vending machine (bubblegum balls not included)? Or perhaps a pair of “fancy intense yellow-and-white diamond” Bulgari earrings?
Well now you can find all of these baubles and bibelots in one place, thanks to Sotheby’s newly opened in-house store, the Emporium.
Gucci Westman, the first guest curator for the Emporium. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Located at Sotheby’s flagship on York Avenue in New York, the enclave is a one-stop shop for rare objects, jewels, and other luxury trinkets for the elevated shopper who wants to buy without the hassle of bidding.
Long before the award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and director Billy Wilder spelled his first name with a
y, in faithful adherence to the ways of his adopted homeland, he was known and widely published, in Berlin and Vienna as Billie Wilder. At birth, on June 22, 1906, in a small Galician town called Sucha, less than twenty miles northwest of Kraków, he was given the name Samuel in memory of his maternal grandfather. His mother, Eugenia, however, preferred the name Billie. She had already taken to calling her first son, Wilhelm, two years Billie’s senior, Willie. As a young girl, Eugenia had crossed the Atlantic and lived in New York City for several years with a jeweler uncle in his Madison Avenue apartment. At some point during that formative stay, she caught a performance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West touring show, and her affection for the exotic name stuck, even without the
The Paris Review - A Taxonomy of Country Boys
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