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P.E. Garcia
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Some Old Pick-Up Lines
I very much desire to make your acquaintance. If agreeable please return this card, appointing a time and place for interview, on the other side. Before Tinder or texting, people flirted the old-fashioned way: with escort cards. Messy Nessy Chic…
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Feminism in the Family
The Wall Street Journal interviews biographer Charlotte Gordon about Mary Shelley’s relationship with her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and how her mother’s feminism permeated the future Frankenstein author’s entire life.
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150 Years of Drum-Taps
“Mr. Whitman,” [Henry James] harrumphed, “is very fond of blowing his own trumpet.” The Boston Globe celebrates Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, which turned 150 this month, and discusses how when it was first published, not everyone thought it was worth celebrating.
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The Ickiness of Memoir
…the fact that sincere care is prerequisite illustrates a truth of memoir: some of the things about memoir that appeal to readers, and are inherent to the form, can seem a little bit icky when made explicit. For the Believer…
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Too Many Books
…it’s hard not to feel that we are in an era of massive overproduction. Just when we were already overwhelmed with paper books, often setting them aside after only a few pages in anxious search of something more satisfying, along…
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A New Favorite Heroine
To do things and not die: is this not all our quest, distilled? At the Kenyon Review, Meg Shevenock breaks down just what makes Bianca from Roberto Bolaño’s A Little Lumpen Novelita so heroic.
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A Literary Scandal, Over 100 Years Later
The New York Review of Books looks at what makes James Joyce’s Uylsses just as scandalous today as it was when it was first published.
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Building a World with All Kinds of Violence
A good story resides in a world all its own, and I wanted to have the reader understand quickly what this world was like, a world where some people like Toño “La Perra” Becerra have a hard on for violence…
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The Vibrant History of Cuba
I feel like if you look at the history of Cuba, it’s always been a tumultuous one, even going back to Columbus, right? It always seems to have been a place that is sort of struggling to gain its footing…
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A Picture of Nothing
For the image to work…the viewer must not see the image for what it is – a black square. The viewer must understand the square as formlessness, and the black inside as neither a fullness nor an emptiness. This simple…
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Poetry Without Music
For the Kenyon Review blog, Cody Walker discusses Ezra Pound and what happens when you separate poetry from music.
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Leave the Despair to Other Publishers
I don’t mind dark, but I’m not much interested in “despair and die.” I’ll leave that to other publishers. If a reader is going to invest the time and energy into a book I publish I’d prefer there was some…