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Happy Birthday, Mr Pinsky [by David Lehman]
As one who believesin the poetics of the big tent,I say we make this an annual eventin the season of changing leaves.And this year, as you turn seventy-seven,whom do I seein heavenbut Igor Stravinskyspeaking…
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Harold Bloom: Born to Teach [by David Lehman]
Word of Harold Bloom's forthcoming book — on the King James Version, 500 years old in 2011 and still the best of Bibles – excites this reader as a volume from no other contemporary…
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In Bojaxi Gezalem (by Mitch Sisskind)
I traveled to Bojaxi Gezalem. I visited the marketplace. I said, “Nuk mos a mund majtas,” which means, “I have been tooting my horn.” I had meant to say, “Ndaloni a mund falamenderit,” which…
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Death and Noir: Lummis Asks Lehman
Suzanne Lummis: David, in your book forthcoming from Cornell University Press, A Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir, you confront mortality, not just death in the abstract but –with your cancer diagnosis — death as a more immediate…
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Bloom at “His Most Aloof and His Most Electrifying” [by Jason Guriel]
Harold Bloom, who died at 89 this week, has naturally been the subject of many elegies and obituaries. In 1998, Bloom kicked off a major controversy with his introduction to "The Best of the…
