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Monday @ KGB: Michael Dumanis + Mathias Svalina
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Michael Dumanis + Mathias Svalina October 3 Hosted by Megin Jimenez and Matthew Yeager Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East…
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“God, A Poem” by James Fenton
A nasty surprise in a sandwich, A drawing-pin caught in your sock, The limpest of shakes from a hand which You'd thought would be firm as a rock, A serious mistake in a nightie,…
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“The Second Half of Heaven” [by Nick Adamski]
I know I am a communist and so does my brother, but he does not ridicule me, even in his head when we are home for supper. I know about the mountains of grain…
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“Why Trilling Matters” by Adam Kirsch [by DL]
The best defense of Lionel Trilling that I have read — and Trilling needs defenders at a time when he is routinely patronized if not ignored — is Adam Kirsch's new book, Why Trilling…
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“Snobs at Home” with Louis Menand in “The New Yorker”
Am I the only one to notice Louis Menand's discussion — and inadvertent confession — of snobbism in his recent "New Yorker" piece on intellectual provocateur Dwight Macdonald, the brilliant journalist, essayist, and editor…
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Facing the horror vacui [by Lisa Vihos]
To the memory of my dear friend and mentor, Joe Ann Cain. Blogging for you this past week was very stimulating for me, and raised many questions related to psychopathology. What is normal, what…
