Posts tagged with “Paul Dry”

View From The Other Side of the Mirror

14 April 2011

Its cities are the oldest in the inhabited world, its ruins the most intoxicating, its people the most welcoming. For the half of us human beings who identify as Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, its history is our identity, its civilization the emergence and syncretic evolution of our creed.

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Death and Resurrection

10 December 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper

Now, part of that city, the city of language, of reading, searching, observing, of writing and listening, is dying. Robin’s Bookstore is closing. I bought my copies of Berg’s poetry books at Robin’s, and there kept an ongoing affair with James Baldwin.

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