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Critics

Ambrose Bierce

May 27, 2026

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was a unique writer and journalist. He is one of the strangest and most creative figures in American literature. Bierce’s life reads almost like one of his own stories. Born into a large, impoverished family in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 24, 1842, Bierce grew up with a profound distaste for his […]

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Pippo’s Met Debut

March 5, 2008

“His musical merits have mostly to do with style, for the voice, though neither small nor ugly, is not an organ of great beauty.” Virgil Thomson in the New York Herald Tribune reviewing GDS’s Met debut on February 25, 1948 How would you like to have this brilliant insight following you through all eternity?

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