Author: Mimi Lipson

Mimi Lipson's story collection, The Cloud of Unknowing (Yeti, 2014), was named after her favorite Christian mystical tract. Her chapbook, Food & Beverage, is available here. She lives up and down the eastern seaboard.

James Mason

By: Mimi Lipson

JAMES MASON (1909–1984), actor, gave us Brutus, Captain Nemo, Hugo Drax. But above all, he gave us a Humbert Humbert who was elegant yet never effete, and through whose doleful, non-specifically European eyes we somehow […]

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Bea Arthur

By: Mimi Lipson

Rest in peace, BEA ARTHUR (1922–2009). She was intelligent, decent, effortlessly funny, and she was old-school show-biz. We adored her as Maude in her signature smock-vests and slacks: broadcasting suburban liberal values with that trumpet-like […]

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