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molly colin

@mpcolin

Freelance journalist writing on the arts, cultural trends, societal issues, wellness, legal affairs. https://teapawt.net/t.co/6UPeRkcfsh

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Joined August 2012
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New Single: Etude No.17 performed by Vanessa Wagner: open.spotify.com/track/6v4qj…
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Paavo Jarvi@paavo_jarvi1 Mar 2025
🇺🇦 #macdonaldtrump
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The South Koreans are winning #booktrain #seoul
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I'm mourning the death of Brazilian music star Sérgio Mendes (1941-2024). This track from his famous Brasil 66 band still sounds fresh and vibrant, so many decades later.
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SF Classical Voice@SFCV6 Jun 2024
"The Magic Flute" kicked off the 2024 summer season at @SFOpera, restyling the War Memorial stage as a 1920s silent film. Our reviewer notes that "the show’s transforming technical feat comes in how the imagery is blended with the singers." sfcv.org/articles/review/sf-… #opera #mozart
At SF Opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute Gets the Silent-Movie Treatment

At SF Opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute Gets the Silent-Movie Treatment

Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s richly imagined production is a visual feast, though sometimes at the cost of the music and the action.

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Paul Auster had a most striking face & how ironic that according to his poignant memoir “The Invention of Solitude,” his father avoided him not only emotionally but literally, did not look at him (for some mysterious reason). Paul himself, warmly sympathetic, gregarious.
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From the City Lights archives: A publicity photo of Paul Auster, 1987. Caption reads: Paul Auster, author of IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, to be published by Viking on April 20 at $15.95, and CITY OF GLASS, to be published by Penguin on April 7 at $5.95. (c) Francoise Schein
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Join us over the next few months as we share more of what’s possible because of our work to amplify the voices of living composers #becauseofACF
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Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 theguardian.com/books/2024/m…

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

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From the Winter issue of @esquire: Viet Thanh Nguyen on his mid-life crisis and finding freedom in being "mid." "I rapidly deduced that mid is not good. Mid is mediocre. Middle of the road. Meh. And then I realized—I am mid." esquire.com/lifestyle/a45855…
Inside My Mid-Life Crisis

Inside My Mid-Life Crisis

After 40, most of us start to panic about what we have (or haven’t) accomplished. Me? I’m learning that there’s more to life than being a famous writer.

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Reading a manuscript of @SamDalrymple123's brilliant, brilliant Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India 1937-71, and completely blown away by it. He has such a gift for making accessible and fascinating complex tangles of late colonial history, and it makes me realise how little I understood of the last days of British rule in South Asia. While I am, of course, unbelievably proud, I am also slowly becoming resigned to becoming the Kingsley Amis of Indian & Imperial history, fated to be known forever as the father of the more brilliant son (not so terrible a fate.) Shattered Lands will be published by @HarperCollins in Spring 2025. – at Sri Lanka
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One month ago, @MosabAbuToha started texting me a few hundred words a day. He was still in Gaza. Still sleeping in a school. Still recovering from beatings he got in Israeli custody. But every day, he typed this story into his phone: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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Jari Kallio@KalliJari27 Oct 2023
Today’s not just any day, but world premiere day. And not just any premiere, but @esapekkasalonen’s Tiu (2023) for @LAPhil, celebrating the first 20 years of the Walt Disney Concert Hall - with palindromes, reverse time, clouds, spatial fanfares and whatnot!!💙 #AdventuresInMusic – at Los Angeles, CA
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From @esquire's 90th anniversary issue: the great Karen Russell writes, "We cannot succeed if we cannot imagine (and articulate) vivid alternatives to apocalypse." esquire.com/news-politics/a4…
What If Things Get Better?

What If Things Get Better?

As the predictions of climate scientists become reality, imagining a better future can feel impossible. But hope might be right beneath our feet.

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“The literature I’m interested in and want to produce is about taking the cover off our superficial lives and delving into the hot stuff underneath.” —Jonathan Franzen buff.ly/3qLWzDp
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Fellow writers: There a magical residency called Dear Butte, from which I just returned. You can stay in this lovely little house in Butte, Montana for up to 10 days and work on your writing project, without having to clean or socialize or talk to anyone. Highly recommend. ✨✨✨
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When #composer Samuel Carl Adams is working on a commissioned piece, what drives him is getting to know the ensemble or orchestra involved. Read more about his process, what to expect from his premiere at the @LAPhil this November, and more on #SFCV. sfcv.org/articles/artist-spo…
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Einstein on the Beach (Live at BAM 1984) is now available for the first time to stream on Apple Music Classical! @BobWilsonNYC @AppleClassical @BAM_Brooklyn music.apple.com/us/album/phi…

Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (feat. Robert Wilson) by The Philip Glass Ensemble, Philip...

Album · 1979 · 20 Songs

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Haunting words by ⁦⁦⁦@BlackerUilleam⁩ Words he wished he would never have to write. Victoria Amelina obituary | Ukraine | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
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Sometimes we seem to get so caught up in playing our part, we forget there’s a deeper and far less predictable self waiting for us backstage.
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mari@MariellaRudi16 May 2023
Writing is so bleak rn but for @latimes I got to follow young and “unpublishable” Angelenos staging DIY readings on roofs and street corners, creating a new lit scene in their image, and I’ve never been more excited/hopeful for LA letters: latimes.com/lifestyle/story/…
L.A.'s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

L.A.'s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

Nearly every night in L.A., literary pop-ups are taking place in unexpected spots like vacant lots, living rooms, rooftops and outside a carnicería.

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