Neil Kurtzman
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Ambrose Bierce
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th May 2026Ambrose 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
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th March 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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