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Do You Honestly Think Lenin Is Any Different From J.p. Morgan? That You, If You Were Given Absolute Power, Would Behave Any Differently? Do You Know The Primary Difference Between Men And Gods?...gods Don't Think They Can Become Men.

Visitation Street Is Urban Opera Writ Large. Gritty And Magical, Filled With Mystery, Poetry And Pain, Ivy Pochoda’s Voice Recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, And Even Alice Sebold, Yet It’s Indelibly Her Own.

Charm Was The Luxury Of Those Who Still Believed In The Essential Rightness Of Things. In Purity And Picket Fences.

I Won The Parental Lottery. Most Of The Kids I Grew Up With Either Came From Really Fractured Homes, Or Really Violent Ones. I Went Home To A Very Traditional, Good Irish Catholic Family.

The Loneliness Of Another Can Be Shocking When It Lays Itself Bare Without Warning.