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\"\"<\/a>Like many editors and critics, I depend on the New York Public Library because it has the books I need when I need them\u2014whether it\u2019s an obscure edition of Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em> or a monograph on Mary Lamb\u2014and because it is one of the few places in New York where anyone can work in peace and quiet, and with free help from experts in their fields. Now there are plans to overhaul this unique institution and tear out seven floors of stacks. Scott Sherman<\/a> and Caleb Crain<\/a> make me wonder why.\u00a0 \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mafia is the consciousness of one\u2019s own being, the exaggerated concept of one\u2019s individual strength, the only arbiter of every conflict of interests or ideas.\u201d So wrote Giuseppe Pitr\u00e8, a nineteenth-century scholar of Italian folklore, and so opens Cosa Nostra: An Illustrated History of the Mafia<\/em><\/a>, which landed on my desk this week. It\u2019s strewn with more bars, cops, and bloody corpses than the best crime movie. \u2014Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Keith Haring show just opened at the Brooklyn Museum, and though I haven\u2019t made it out there yet, I\u2019ve been following the museum\u2019s Tumblr blog<\/a> featuring selections from Haring\u2019s journals. They\u2019re putting up a page each day, and most so far are from the early seventies, when he was a teenager, but some of the site\u2019s earliest posts show Haring playing around with ciphers and visual repetitions\u2014hints of what is to come. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Padgett and John Ashbery discuss the life and work of Frank O\u2019Hara in this recent conversation at Harvard<\/a>. The bittersweet\u00a0reminiscences include O\u2019Hara\u2019s introduction to Larry Rivers at a party. To hear Ashbery tell it, it wasn\u2019t long till they were canoodling behind a window drape. \u2014Josh Anderson
<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was recently blown away by Under the Volcano<\/a>,<\/em> Malcolm Lowry\u2019s famous account of a day in the life of a British Consul suffering from latest-of-late, DT-stage alcoholism. The Consul, one Geoffery Firmin, has reached that fatal apex of the disease in which reality splinters into an inscrutable funhouse, and the quotidian becomes demonic. The vivid depiction makes a sad kind of sense, for in many ways it was a porthole into the late Lowry\u2019s own troubled mind. (Although it must be noted that Volcano\u2019s<\/em> tragic star is also totally hilarious.) Even if you haven\u2019t read Lowry\u2019s work, you can watch the entire 1972 Oscar-nominated documentary about his life here<\/a> for free. It is truly fascinating. \u2014Allison Bulger<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Researching Elaine May recently, I stumbled on an old video of May and Mike Nichols\u2019s skits. Familial loathing was never so funny!<\/a> \u2014J. A.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite elegy of the week is by Michael Robbins, from his forthcoming first collection, Alien vs. Predator<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\n

To Anthony Madrid<\/p>\n

Vita brevis,<\/em> brother. If you die first,
keep your sniveling relations far hence.
You got village girls pregnant with a glance.
Heck, you almost got me<\/em> pregnant once.<\/p>\n

I’ll never forget your first words to me:
Where\u2019s the instructions for this thing?
I said, It\u2019s a pillow<\/em>. Your epitaph will read,
IMPROVE YOUR SCORE ON THE A.C.T.!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t pull the bell rope if you wake
in your Silver Sapphire casket.
That thing cost a fortune. I hate to dig.
Just go to sleep, recite some Beckett.<\/p>\n

Well, the psyche lusts to be wet,
as the kids say. Madrid, it\u2019s not cricket!
I\u2019ll look after your woman, fear not.
Are you quite sure you\u2019re not dead yet?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014L.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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