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NINES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 5, 2015 – 7:59 pm

Easter was a special holiday for our family. My mother was a devout Catholic. My father had converted from agnosticism to marry his Irish bride. The Bowdoin College grad was a good dresser and they attired their six children, as if we were the jewels of empire. Every Easter we wore new clothes from tie […]

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Quelle Cad

January 26, 2015 – 3:40 am

“If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” Lord Henry Wooten from THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GREY

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Hot Pants Redux

January 20, 2015 – 8:35 pm

Long legs and hot pants. You know I would get in the Time Machine back to 1971. In a heart beat.

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Hot Pants Back Then

January 17, 2015 – 2:27 pm

This morning the thermometer outside the window of the Fort Greene Observatory read a frosty 18 Fahrenheit. My hand touched the glass. It was colder than ice. I bundled up for my walk to the train station, but was heartened by the toasty warmth of the sun. The strength of its glow was not a […]

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Duro Olowu @ Salon 94

June 27, 2014 – 11:35 am

Nigerian Designer, Duro Olowu presented Last evening I attended the opening of Duro Olowu, a Nigerian fashion designer. I had almost blown off the event, except I had spent the entire day writing ALMOST A DEAD MAN and needed a break from my novel about a black pimp in Hamburg. Samantha McEwen had two pieces […]

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