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Guest Blogger – Terence Winch
Our guest blogger this week is writer and musician Terence Winch, who will be posting from Washington, D.C., where he lives. His most recent book is Boy Drinkers (Hanging Loose Press, 2007). You can…
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Now I am quietly waiting . . .
We watched the season opener of AMC’s Mad Men last night and have lots to say about it but for now we want to thank the writers for putting Frank O’Hara’s "Meditations in an…
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Happy Birthday, JA
Heartfelt happy birthday wishes to John Ashbery born on this day (as was Gerard Manley Hopkins, by the way). The new Library of America edition of JOHN ASHBERY: COLLECTED POEMS 1956-1987, edited deftly by…
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Jack Kerouac quits the team (by Mitch Sisskind)
I have enjoyed reading on this site about Jack’s outstanding work in Mark Van Doren’s class at Columbia. However, while it may be true that Jack quit the football team after receiving an ‘A’…
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Adam on Mark (Van Doren)
<<I had found a roster of my grandfather’s students over the more than 40 years he had taught at Columbia University, each name with a grade meticulously recorded next to it. At the top…
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Film Still Series – #92
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.
