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#267: A PARTY FOR HIS FRIENDS.  A quick-moving and entertaining documentary that has just (July, 2025) shown up on Netflix is a chance to learn something you never knew, or, if you are of sufficient age, to have your memory and sense of history revised.  Sunday Best  is about The Ed Sullivan Show  and the man behind it—one of the great success stories of early television, but a slightly different story than I for one remembered.  Sullivan, born in 1901 in Harlem when it was s

AN INTERVAL: THE LINES ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land...

#266: FORBIDDEN MERCIES.  Expanding on his 2017 poetry chapbook Portrait of an Alcoholic , Kaveh Akbar produced in the same year an...