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“Why Trilling Matters” by Adam Kirsch [by DL]
The best defense of Lionel Trilling that I have read — and Trilling needs defenders at a time when he is routinely patronized if not ignored — is Adam Kirsch's new book, Why Trilling…
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“Snobs at Home” with Louis Menand in “The New Yorker”
Am I the only one to notice Louis Menand's discussion — and inadvertent confession — of snobbism in his recent "New Yorker" piece on intellectual provocateur Dwight Macdonald, the brilliant journalist, essayist, and editor…
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Facing the horror vacui [by Lisa Vihos]
To the memory of my dear friend and mentor, Joe Ann Cain. Blogging for you this past week was very stimulating for me, and raised many questions related to psychopathology. What is normal, what…
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Poem in the Manner of Charles Bukowski [by David Lehman]
You do what you want,I’ll do what I want,and we’ll see which one of usgets to the twenty-dollar windowin time for the fourth race at Del Mar. On the goddamn radiothat’s always playingin my…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Joan Cusack Handler of CavanKerry Press
NA. My first question is about the name, CavanKerry. A nice Irish name. Can you tell me how you came up with this name? What it means to you? Is there anything Irish about…
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