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Isaac Fitzgerald
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NYC and SF Readers
New York readers, are you looking for something to do tonight? Why not check out Maile Chapman discussing her debut novel, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto? The event will be moderated by Ethan Nosowsky, editor-at-large of Graywolf Press, and…
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“I don’t remember my first kiss.”
“Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying ‘Should I be reading this?’ queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is this really poetry?” queasiness of such Muumuu House-affiliated poets as…
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Books Behind Bars
“Another day of volunteering at Rikers Island with the NYPL has come to a close. Thursday I went to one of the male detention houses along with my mentor and two other staff members from NYPL. We were there for ‘book cart service,’ which…
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Kipling on Clemens
Mark Twain died one hundred years ago on this date, so you’ll have to forgive us for mentioning the great author twice in one day. The Library of America has posted an excerpt from The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers…
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“Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era”
“If Ms. Height was less well known than her contemporaries in either the civil rights or women’s movement, it was perhaps because she was doubly marginalized, pushed offstage by women’s groups because of her race and by black groups because…
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Anonymous Attacks
“An extraordinary literary ‘whodunnit’ over the identity of a mystery reviewer who savaged works by some of Britain’s leading academics on the Amazon website has culminated in a top historian admitting that the culprit was, in fact, his wife.” The…
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“A writing-life is not a life.”
“In the immediate days following Ray’s death, I did not teach. Colleagues urged that I take more time off, even the entire semester, but I was eager to return to my fiction workshops the following week, on February 27, in…
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Mark Twain, Literary Critic
“He was less well-known, but no less talented, as a literary critic. Proof of it has resided, mostly unnoticed, in a small library in Redding, Conn., where hundreds of his personal books have sat in obscurity for 100 years. They…
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William S. Burroughs in Lawrence
Burroughs in his Kansas home with “Patti Smith, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, and various cats.” (via Jewcy)
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“The pain, confusion, absurdity, and humor of grief…”
“How and what we tell ourselves about our lives matters. The words we choose matter, and how we shape the story matters.” Grace Talusan reviews Katherine Shonk’s debut novel, Happy Now?.
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Further Loss of Control
“Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests” will now be transformed into “connections,”…