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(Cake Man Raven Confectionery)
Some ways to beat the heat – with verse recommended by Poet Laureate Billy Collins, romantic fiction from sound artist Miranda July, and the steel pan rhythms of Trinidad émigré Rudy King. Also, a conversation in the hot kitchen of “Cakeman” Raven Patrick DeSean Dennis III. And André Aciman on writing in exile.
Beach Poetry
For poetry devotees who also happen to be dedicated to sunbathing and body surfing, Poet Laureate Billy Collins offers these summer reading recommendations.
The Cakeman
Imagine baking a cake for 1500 people in your own modest kitchen – and the kitchens of all your neighbors…. That’s how Raven Patrick DeSean Dennis III, a.k.a. the Cakeman, used to do it, back when he ran his baking business out of a Harlem apartment. Today, he’s more comfortably ...
Walkman Busting
So a guy walks up to you on the street, and asks you what’s playing on your Walkman. You tell him. But he’s not through with you. Now he says he wants to listen too and before you know it, he’s plugged in a mini-disc and started recording. Gideon D’Archangelo ...
Out of Egypt
Writer-in-exile André Aciman finds Alexandria on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Celebrity Stash
These days, there seems to be a museum for everything – Barbie, sex, even mustard! The Next Big Thing’s “unreliable narrator,” Alice Furlaud, introduces us to the latest: the Museum of Celebrity Artifacts, whose attractions include discarded items from the likes of Jackie O. and Chairman Mao. Produced by Curtis ...
School of Romance
A big auditorium. Rows of stackable chairs. A collection of lonely people, sitting in the dark with napkins over their faces. Welcome to the School of Romance, as imagined by performer and audio artist Miranda July. With music and sound design by Tim Renner.
Steel Pan Guardian
Rudy King immigrated to New York from Trinidad in the 1940s, and brought with him a storehouse of knowledge about making and playing steel pan drums. Today, he continues to make drums, and plays congas with his band the Radoes.
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