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☆ Paul Auster’s New York Tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Lucy Sante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I first became aware of Paul Auster, who died on April 30, from reading old issues of The Columbia Review when I was a student at the university. He translated French Surrealist poetry and wrote prose fiction, set in a sort of silent-movie cityscape that anticipated his novels and films. We inhabited the same Morningside Heights world of the early 1970s, with its cranks and cults, mimeographed screeds and tracts. Surely Paul, too, patronized Marlin Café and the Moon Palace. Paul was living blocks away, and when I met him he made me feel as if the whole neighborhood welcomed me.

Persons: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, mimeographed, Paul, Marlin Café Organizations: Columbia Locations: New Jersey, Newark, Columbia, Morningside, Manhattan

☆ Ignoring Warnings, G.O.P. Trumpeted Now-Discredited Allegation Against Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Luke Broadwater | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In May 2023, Senator Charles E. Grassley, a chief antagonist of President Biden, strode to the Senate floor with some shocking news: He had learned, he said, of a document in the F.B.I.’s possession that could reveal “a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden.”Mr. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested to any Americans listening that there was a single document that could confirm the most sensational corruption allegations against Mr. Biden — and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was engaging in a coverup. “Did they sweep it under the rug to protect the candidate Biden?” he asked conspiratorially. Over the next few months, Mr. Grassley’s quest to make public the allegation — laid out in an obscure document known as an F.B.I. Form 1023 — became a fixation, and a foundation of the growing Republican push to impeach Mr. Biden as payback for Democrats’ treatment of former President Donald J. Trump. At the center of it all was the unsubstantiated accusation that Mr. Biden had taken a $5 million bribe from the executive of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.

Persons: Charles E, Grassley, Biden, strode, ’, ” Mr, Mr, Biden —, ”, conspiratorially, —, Donald J Organizations: Iowa Republican, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Trump Locations: Iowa, “, Ukrainian

☆ Susie Essman, the Scene-Stealer Who Makes Larry David Lose It
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Melena Ryzik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The comedian Susie Essman spots them regularly, out in the urban wild: fashion doppelgängers. “That’s a total Susie Greene outfit,” she said, spying a woman entering the restaurant in a hooded, salmon-orange jumpsuit crosshatched with mint green slashes. Power clashing is the life force of Susie Greene, the singular character that Essman has inhabited on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” since the HBO series, created by Larry David, began in 2000. As Greene, the much put-upon wife of David’s manager, played by Jeff Garlin, Essman is more than just a fan favorite. She is also the person who, her castmates said, makes David crack up most regularly.

Persons: Susie Essman, “, Susie Greene, ”, she’s, Larry David, Greene, Jeff Garlin, —, wilder, castmates, David Organizations: Cafe Luxembourg, HBO, “

☆ Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton’s New Don
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Earlier this month, Pharrell Williams was in the men’s atelier on the second floor of Louis Vuitton’s corporate office in Paris, sunglasses on, surveying his new perch. “This window is different.”The window by his desk looks out over the small plaza on the north side of the Pont Neuf, where in just a couple of weeks, his first show as Louis Vuitton men’s creative director would take place. A 50-foot statue of the artist Yayoi Kusama, a Vuitton collaborator, hovered just outside. The rapper Pusha T and the streetwear innovator Nigo were milling about. I mean, the Seine River right there — it’s like the moat.”

Persons: Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton’s, ”, Pont, Louis Vuitton, Pusha, Williams’s, “ Locations: Paris, Seine

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