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Louis Auchincloss’s “East Side Story”
On Louis Auchincloss, “East Side Story” (Houghton Mifflin, $24.00, 240 pages; 2004) By David Lehman Fifty-eight years and sixty books ago, Louis Auchincloss began a literary career unlike that of any other contemporary…
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Seamus Heaney: 10th Anniversary of His Death [ed. Terence Winch]
Portrait of Seamus Heany by Edward McGuire, 1974, oil on canvas. Ulster Museum Before I ever met Seamus Heaney in person, he sent me a…
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Seamus Heaney: 10th Anniversary of His Death [ed. Terence Winch]
Portrait of Seamus Heany by Edward McGuire, 1974, oil on canvas. Ulster Museum Before I ever met Seamus Heaney in person, he sent me a…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 30, 2023
We lost two amazing poets last week. Ed Ochester passed on August 22 and Maureen Seaton on August 26. Since 2000, Ed was my editor University of Pittsburgh Press. Maureen was my best friend…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 30, 2023
We lost two amazing poets last week. Ed Ochester passed on August 22 and Maureen Seaton on August 26. Since 2000, Ed was my editor University of Pittsburgh Press. Maureen was my best friend…
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Joni Mitchell [by Lewis Saul]
Yes, lyricists and poets are different species. But for me, Joni has always been both. I like her early albums, but they lack gravitas — in both the compositions and lyrics. Beginning in 1974,…
