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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

Tolkien, Amateur

Posted on February 16, 2019 by JMN

“He’s doing the drawings and the maps and the spreadsheets and all of that detail — the language, the calligraphy — for himself,” [Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford] said, after pointing out that Tolkien didn’t … Continue reading →

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Photographer on the Straightaway

Posted on February 16, 2019 by JMN

When Annie Leibovitz was starting out as a photographer in San Francisco, she would toss her camera equipment into the back of her ’63 Porsche Cabriolet convertible and tear off to Los Angeles on Highway 5. “You used to be … Continue reading →

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Touché

Posted on February 16, 2019 by JMN

… I was, in part, asking a question of myself: whether poetry that arose out of social media could hold up under intensive close reading. The answer, in short, was yes… As time passes, and the new poets grow older, … Continue reading →

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The Fall and Fall of Title Editing

Posted on February 16, 2019 by JMN

Two headlines appearing for different articles in The Guardian on Saturday, February 16, 2019: “Generation next: the rise – and rise – of the new poets” (Sarah Crown) “What does it meme? The rise and rise of the fashion viral” … Continue reading →

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“One Hospital, One Neighborhood, One City”

Posted on February 15, 2019 by JMN

Temple University Hospital [in Philadelphia] treated 481 patients with gunshot wounds last year, and 97 died. In this one hospital in one neighborhood in one city. As a country, we lost nearly 40,000 lives to guns in 2017. (Eric Curran … Continue reading →

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What to Do in Canada

Posted on February 15, 2019 by JMN

We are an insanely exciting country. Come on over and head to St. John’s to drink screech and kiss a cod. Or let’s meet in the Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City, Yukon, and we can enjoy the Sourtoe cocktail together … Continue reading →

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Watercolour World

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

A new website is digitising millions of watercolours – to make instantly available a wealth of vital historic imagery that could assist everything from climate research to school teachers[.] The [Watercolour World] website, which has launched with about 80,000 works, … Continue reading →

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Broadside Press

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

Randall started the publishing house, which was based in Detroit, with his librarian’s paycheck, and it swiftly became a success, producing dozens of broadsides — a printing style in which just one side of the paper is used — as … Continue reading →

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“How We Work Together”

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

While new restaurants in Los Angeles struggle to train and retain staff, the cooks at Beverly Soon Tofu have worked with Ms. Lee for decades, fermenting kimchi and frying kelp. “They speak broken Korean to me, I speak broken Spanish … Continue reading →

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“Good Mistakes”

Posted on February 14, 2019 by JMN

Frank Gehry: Like in [the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, 1997, designed by Gehry]…, when I look at the building, personally I have all kinds of criticisms of it — I can’t understand why they like it so much. Ai Weiwei: I’ve … Continue reading →

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