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Quote of the Day: Mary McCarthy
I heartily recommend Mary McCarthy's "Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man," one of the stories in The Company She Keeps. It's not nearly as well known as her "Man in the Brooks…
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“Nowhere” [by Herbert Engelhardt]
I woke upInto the beginningOf nowhere I walked outThrough the middleOf nowhere. I kept movingTo the endOf nowhere. — Herbert Engelhardt
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Battersea, Atheism, Russell, and Me [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I’ve missed you! It’s been almost a month since I last posted, I guess I needed a rest from even my pleasures. But here I am, back and ready to exhaust myself…
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Tony Hecht and the Sign of the Goat [by Mark Shulgasser (The Blue Zenith)]
Born in the shortest days of winter, the Capricorn begins life with the primitive terror that the sun might fail entirely. Therefore, select natives of this sign anxiously adhere to high…
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The Time Suck: A Bit O’ Live, Pre-Globes Blogging [by Emma Trelles]
6:21 pm – Ryan Seacrest is killing minutes on the red carpet by pretending to be interested in Jennifer Love Hewitt. 6:23 pm - Seconds after her pre, pre-show commentary ends, Giuliana Rancic, the E! channel's chief…
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Thoughts on Experimental British Poetry & a Conversation with Carrie Etter (by Leslie McGrath)
I spent a couple of weeks in London in the fall, visiting my friend Cheryl Moskowitz, a novelist and poet I’d met at the Vermont Studio Center last year. One of the joys of…
