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Just for you. And your readers. Three hours with Las Meninas.
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Great article -- many new books for my TBR list. But one thing: In "The Boy From the North Country" paragraph, don't you mean Robert Zimmerman? Unless you actually mean the boy looks a bit like Robert Zuckerman, the photographer.

Slunts sounds mmmmm odd. Can we say posts until we come up with something better?

He died in August 2024. I like many of his films, like Le Samourai, Borsalino, Purple Noon, L'Eclisse. Yes, I know he supported right-wing candidates, but I prefer to separate the art from the artist's negative habits.

Two = ZPG and that's the best reason for having only two kids.

Opens on mobile and laptop for me, right now.

Yes! Please tell me what the glitch was — either here or in email.

I’m checking.

I'll add my top ten authors. I've read at least five books by these authors.
Richard Powers
Jose Saramago
Philip Roth
Margaret Atwood
Ian McEwan
Don DeLillo
Michael Chabon
Isabel Allende
Kurt Vonnegut
Mordecai Richler