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World War II [poem by Edward Field]
During a recent dinner with David Alexander and Richard Howard, David told us the story of 19 year old Sgt. Jack Coleman Cook, who gave poet Edward Field his place in the life raft…
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Next Line, Please: What You Will Miss the Most [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, contributors were tasked with a formidable concept: the creation of a new hero. Lord Byron begins Don Juan, his comic masterpiece, with the lines “I want a hero,…
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Squibs 245, 246 [by Alan Ziegler]
245. While in college, my songwriting partner and I bus to Manhattan from Schenectady to audition for Vanguard records. We don’t get a contract and my guitar is stolen from the waiting room. Back in…
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Forty Swimsuits [by Molly Arden]
Tonight’s entry begins in the small closet in the upstairs hall. There, a bag of shameful confirmation is knotted evidence of a ritual I’ve practiced since my teens. It’s difficult to discuss without the…
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Philip Roth says the Bull Still Has Room to Run [by David Lehman]
In honor of the late Philip Roth we bring you this feature that we ran back in March 2014. <<< If the market seemed overvalued last year, wary analysts are eyeing the exit signs…
