Lorrie Moore is a short story and fiction writer. She graduated from St. Lawrence University in New York in 1978 and received an MFA from Cornell University in 1982. Moore published her first book of short stories, Self-Help, in 1985 and quickly became known for her cleverly candid approach to p

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Argent was trained in sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and received an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been awarded numerous fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the

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Sergei, or Serge, Diaghilev is a dance history icon, having founded the Ballets Russes in 1909 with the intention of bringing ballet to the general public instead of just the aristocracy. He was a pioneer, creating modern ballets with uncoventional musical scores. With the Ballets Russes, Diaghilev

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