The book, beautifully laid out, is broken into sections (Woodstock / Town Hall / In the Studio / Bob & Joan / Early ’65 / Forest Hills) by lyrics letterpressed onto heavy matt paper, with Kramer’s excellent narrative set in typewriter, an era-specific evocation of the prevailing technol...
The letter Yod in Judah’s name on the blue-green carbuncle gemstone lit up, then the letter Resh in Reuben’s name on the red ruby gemstone lit up and then the Dalet in Daniel’s name on the blue turquoise gemstone lit up. The answer from the Lord of hosts was: Yered, yrd, ...
to a solitary cabin on a still more solitary mountain, 6,444 feet elevation and three hours' hard climb from everywhere, but in spite of the fact that almost the very first question asked by everyone was 'Isn't it awfully lonesome up there?' I never felt a moment's longing ...
4. To put down in writing: take down a letter. take for 1. To regard as: Do you take me for a fool? 2. To consider mistakenly: Don't take silence for approval. take in 1. To receive (an amount of money), as from a business venture: The box office took in $30,000 in an...
5: FALL 2012 words of artists that allow them to communicate—or not. Angela Hickman finds an ancient book culture living out its year as the UNESCO World Book Capital in Yerevan, Armenia, while Meghan Davidson Ladly follows the fate of books in the streets of Paris, that other ...
paint a psychedelic portrait of partydrunk rapture. It must be an aural illusion but I hear the wah guitar in the right channel sing actual words along to the chorus, especially on the remastered version. And that sustained note which starts at 4:08 and nearly lasts until the end of the...
buying too many that sit idle, though, would be a major cost for a company trying to limit them. At the same time, it wouldn’t be the worst error to make: one of the challenges with AI is the fact that inference costs money; in other words, making something with AI has marginal ...
Patchworking is a form of plagiarism that seems to follow every letter of the law: the use of small amounts, the use of quotation marks, and the use of clear attribution. The problem might also be described using one of the tests for fair use: the “amount and substantiality” of th...
The letter M above the word BYZANTINE stands for Muhammad (also spelled Mohammed) who originated Islam, and brought all the Muslims under his rule. The title for the ruler of the Muslims was “caliph.” This title was held after his death by four of his companions in succession, and then...
While there are definitely things an editor can do to help cure this epidemic of literary mediocrity, there are things that writers need to do as well.