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Is Poetry Kaput? And Who Killed It?: Notes on an Evergreen [by David Lehman]
Used to be God whose decomposing corpse made the big stink. Was it Nietszche, Freud, Time magazine, or the masses (who preferred, in the end, other opiates) that did Him in? I'm not sure,…
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“Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop . . .” Hollywood and Gertrude Stein
Eric Rhodes and Ginger Rogers as Alberto and Dale in "Top Hat" In 1943, Edmund Wilson lamented the rise of what he called "the two great enemies of literary talent in our time: Hollywood…
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Love/Hate [by Terence Winch]
(Ed. note: I had just about exhausted every crime series available on Netflix when Terence Winch wrote to suggest that I check out Love/Hate, an Irish crime drama series broadcast on RTÉ Television. The…
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“To You” [by Maria Richardson]
It is both selfish of me and not to ask you to stay a little longer. The mountains are playing that game where one of them wears a cloud as a veil and then the…
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Cult Classic “Signs of the Times” by David Lehman back in print
David Lehman‘s Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man is now available at Amazon as a Chu Hartley Publishers e-book. Writing in the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani…
