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Hemingway in a Red Cross ambulance, Italy, 1918

Eve Babitz's “other” works

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael, showing a bearded man in a dark robe with a fur collar and a black cap, seated against a plain background.

Colette, c. 1910

To Have and Have Not

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Professional wit Fran Lebowitz, 2016

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