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American Tragedy, An

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noun

  1. a novel (1925) by Theodore Dreiser.


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This week, after the opening of “An American Tragedy,” an opera by Tobias Picker, at the Glimmerglass Festival, Katz found himself in notable nonbaseball company.

From New York Times

“An Unblemished Mirror of Truth: Kyohei Inukai, Robert Brackman, and Portraits of American Tragedy,” an exhibition through Aug. 24 at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College in Massachusetts, combines Brackman’s paintings of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh with Inukai’s portraits of himself and his inner circle.

From New York Times