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Daniel B. Smith

Daniel B. Smith teaches writing at the College of New Rochelle and is the author of Muses, Madmen and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, and The New York Times Magazine.

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The Doctor Is IN

At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside

by Daniel B. Smith | Tuesday, September 01, 2009

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Good Thing Going

by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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