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James Arthur

James Arthurâ€™s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. He has received a â€œDiscoveryâ€/The Nation Prize, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Stegner Fellowship, and fellowships to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He lives in St. Louis.

Film, Rumpus Original

James Arthur

Jun 30, 2009

Conan the Barbarian: an Appreciation. Seriously.

I adore Conan the Barbarian. For years I’ve been telling people that my favorite movie is 8½, say, or On the Waterfront, but it’s time for me to stop lying to myself and to my friends.

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