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Epiphany at the Metropolitan Museum
From Upper East Side about Beauty and the Beast, decorative arts, Disney, Lumière, Met Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rococo, Snow White, sofasPublished on: 05/29/2022
Ann Levin is a writer who worked for many years as a journalist, including as national news editor at The Associated Press. Before that, she was a reporter for newspapers in Texas and California. Her book reviews and articles have been widely published by the AP, USA Today, and many other media outlets, and her personal essays and memoir have appeared in a number of literary magazines including Sensitive Skin, Southeast Review, Meat for Tea, and Potato Soup Journal. She has also performed on stage with the New York-based writers’ group Read650. She lives in New York City.
Red leather and chrome trap my eyes. I could be in the kitchen washing dishes or helping my mom cook dinner. Maybe walking home from my best friend Lynda’s house or reading a book in the backyard. When I think about the white Cadillac, I feel happy. When the Cadillac is parked in the driveway […]
It was the start of another 90-something degrees day. The sixth floor bedroom I shared with my seven-year old brother and five-year old sister on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights was sweltering. Our apartment was on the top floor directly under the building’s roof, which drew in the sun’s heat with a vengeance, through its […]
At the start of the third year of the pandemic, I stood in front of a small flat screen in a corner of a darkened gallery at the Metropolitan Museum with the strangest feeling: I was happy. I had relaxed completely, every part of me—muscles, sinews, organs, bones, if that’s possible. And even stranger, I […]
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