The lone male artist has often been taken as a genius; the lone female artist as a muse or “art monster.” But art does not have to be masculine or feminine... Artists Burning After Reading
FRAUD: ‘It’s Almost Like a Ghost Town.’ Most Nursing Homes Overstated Staffing for Years
Was Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Telling the Truth When He Denied Threatening GOP Staffers? “Somebody at the DOJ isn’t telling the truth about Rosenstein’s threats.”
Stephen Colbert, NARAL among lefties opposing Trump’s SCOTUS nominee by mocking his first name. “Another example, from Stephen Colbert monologue on Tues. ‘That sounds less like a Supreme Court justice and more like a waiter at a Ruby Tuesday’s. Hey everybody, I’m Brett, I’ll be your Supreme Court justice tonight.’”
Meanwhile, “Under Pressure from Progressive Groups, Brett Favre Changes His Name to ‘Carl.'”
Read this thoughtcrime at your own peril, citizen. Big GoshIng [insert gender-neutral noun of your choice here] is watching you!
The Women Of Rare Books
Although it’s true that old white men have always run the large, moneyed, century-old rare-book trade—buying and selling books for a living—women have made enormous inroads as private and institutional collectors. Things started shifting in the seventies. Second-wave feminism gave women a voice, and female collectors started patching the historical holes by seeing value and relevance in objects that men had ignored. When you put your gaze on a manuscript and call attention to it, you create value in the eyes of others. Curiosity creates a market.
At a travel agency for the wealthy, a junior employee’s first task is transporting the clients’ favorite meats.
Taken from his dorm at Moscow’s Literary Institute in the middle of the night, Naum Korzhavinfaced down his interrogators and survived. He “won this idiocy contest”... Every Day I Wake Up in a
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