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  • The Greatness of “The Great Gatsby” [brought to you by Scribner, Fitzgerald’s original publisher]

    April 15, 2015

      <<< To celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we [at Scribner] collected comments from writers on how Gatsby has influenced their work. Here Scribner authors share their favorite lines from…

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  • Clowns Against Submission Fees [by Timothy Green]

    April 15, 2015

    After publishing my first book of poems, I stopped writing. I couldn’t stomach self-promotion, but felt a duty to my publisher to self-promote. It was like eating my own vomit every day, and for…

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  • Clowns Against Submission Fees [by Timothy Green]

    April 15, 2015

    After publishing my first book of poems, I stopped writing. I couldn’t stomach self-promotion, but felt a duty to my publisher to self-promote. It was like eating my own vomit every day, and for…

    Continue reading…

  • Spring Onions: “To Be Hungry is to Be Great” [a poem by William Carlos Williams]

    April 14, 2015

    The small, yellow grass-onion, spring's first green, precursor to Manhattan's pavements, when plucked as it comes, in bunches, washed, split and fried in a pan, though inclined to be a little slimy, if well…

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  • Spring Onions: “To Be Hungry is to Be Great” [a poem by William Carlos Williams]

    April 14, 2015

    The small, yellow grass-onion, spring's first green, precursor to Manhattan's pavements, when plucked as it comes, in bunches, washed, split and fried in a pan, though inclined to be a little slimy, if well…

    Continue reading…

  • Practical Magic, or Poesiametalalalology [by Timothy Green]

    April 14, 2015

    I’d planned on following yesterday’s post with the good news, but that line about not actually liking poetry feels like a rusty nail—so let’s hammer it down before we move on to “We Are…

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