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THE LOUDNESS OF LIFE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 19, 2012 – 10:16 pm

Not all intellectuals have been exiled from Manhattan by the exorbitant rents and last spring editors, writers, publishers, agents, actors, painters, and pundits gathered at a West Village triplex to celebrate a radical journalist’s safe return from the Libyan revolution. Anne’s tales of the rebels’ fight against Khadaffi’s regime had appeared in the Wall Street […]

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THE LOUDNESS OF LIFE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 27, 2011 – 10:02 pm

Not all intellectuals have been exiled by the exorbitant rents from Manhattan. The other evening editors, writers, publishers, agents, actors, painters, and pundits gathered at a West Village triplex of a right-wing journalist recently returned from the Libyan revolution. Nobody was famous, although several of the attendees had come close. The first arrivals congregated in […]

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Among the Stars

September 5, 2008 – 10:52 am

Several Septembers ago I attended a party for Interview Magazine in hopes of speaking with the managing editor about a writing gig. He was an old timer like myself. I didn’t have high hopes, since I once threw him out of a nightclub, but I was an expert at walking back across burnt bridges. The […]

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