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Read MoreOn a chilly December night in 1927, the elite of New York filed into Carnegie Hall to hear a new concerto by one of the city’s most popular men.
Read MoreOne should never try to date and sell a novel at the same time; one bleeds into the other. Stood up on Friday night, I spent the weekend rewriting Chapter One. When an agent finally offered to represent me, I had to fight to urge to take her to meet my mother.....
Read MoreThe narrowest house in the world was built by a Polish architect and named after Israeli writer Etgar Keret. Few eponyms have been more apropos. Etgar means challenge while Keret means urban. What greater urban challenge than living in a place where, if you want to open the fridge, you have to stand in another room?
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