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Hump Day Highlights
This week we're highlighting activities and accomplishments of friends and former guest bloggers: Eduardo Corral (Slow Lightning,Yale University Press) has embarked on an ambitious reading tour. Jessica Piazza's poems appear in Mezzo Cammin, an…
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Congratulations to the Nominees for National Book Critics Circle Awards
This year's nominees for a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry are Frank Bidart's "Metaphysical Dog," Lucie Brock-Broido's "Stay, Illusion," Denise Duhamel's "Blowout," Bob Hicok's "Elegy Owed" and Carmen Gimenez Smith's "Milk and Filth." Congratulations to all. We're…
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Is Poetry Kaput? And Who Killed It?: Notes on an Evergreen [by David Lehman]
Used to be God whose decomposing corpse made the big stink. Was it Nietszche, Freud, Time magazine, or the masses (who preferred, in the end, other opiates) that did Him in? I'm not sure,…
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“Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop . . .” Hollywood and Gertrude Stein
Eric Rhodes and Ginger Rogers as Alberto and Dale in "Top Hat" In 1943, Edmund Wilson lamented the rise of what he called "the two great enemies of literary talent in our time: Hollywood…
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Love/Hate [by Terence Winch]
(Ed. note: I had just about exhausted every crime series available on Netflix when Terence Winch wrote to suggest that I check out Love/Hate, an Irish crime drama series broadcast on RTÉ Television. The…
