In Which the Magpie Spies Collages in the Trees
Mike Nichols’s films . . . Hannah Höch’s cut-outs . . . Wallace Stevens’s jar on a hill
Carnal KnowledgeThe Graduate
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In Which the Magpie Takes to the Field
De Maria’s field of lightning . . . Thoreau’s “botany boxes” . . . James Schuyler’s salute to the past
In Which the Magpie Makes a Ghost Map of the City
The haunting of Rooney Mara . . . a delivery room turned walk-in closet . . . Ain Gordon’s “Radicals in Miniature”
In Which the Magpie Seeks the Zeitgeist of the Losers
The stuff we talk about after we finish with our weekly outrage.
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Wherein a question is posed: Is the Magpie a locksmith?
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Novels are also mirror rooms, in a way; we read them “to see our reflections transformed, to wear another’s face.”
In Which the Magpie Considers the Possibilities of Outer Space
Spacepeople perch in trees . . . prisoners in the desert read the stars . . . escalators lead the way to the Big Bang