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Peter Catapano

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New York Times Opinion Editor (The Stone, Disability, Sunday Review, every now and then Op-Ed)
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Pittsburgh Review of Books

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By Donna Masini, Mauricio Ortiz Rousset, Peter Catapano Verified
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
Poet’s Introduction: This poem arrived musically and I followed the music into places of reverie my mother’s songs and stories used to take me. There was a lot of blue, an incantatory “cahootian music” all through, much of which I cut. In the first draft notes I see that it’s the day Stephen Hawking died. I’d forgotten this but it makes an odd kind of sense, Cahoots being a place both inside and outside time, a place of possibility, where you could be congruent as noon.
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Stealing What is Mine: The Third September 11

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By Mauricio Ortiz Rousset, Donna Masini, Peter Catapano Verified
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
The drama took place in Chile, to the misfortune of the Chileans, but it must go down in history as something that happened irreparably to all of us in this era and that stayed in our lives forever. —Gabriel García Márquez A spectre is haunting history. U.S. imperialism, like a ghost, is everywhere and nowhere. It is evident but discreet, manifesting its power even in its absences.
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The Music of What Happens

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By Peter Catapano Verified, Erik Hanson, Timothy Morton
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
Where does art happen? At around 9:45 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, the spirit moved me. The musical spirit, that is, even if the circumstances were decidedly mundane. I was sitting on the couch watching the Knicks with my wife. The Rockets were trashing New York, so she decided to go to bed after halftime so as not to suffer the indignity of seeing the final score. Just then I was drawn to the piano.
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