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Don’t Get Me Down: Reading and Writing Depression
In September 2008, David Foster Wallace stepped out onto his patio and did what most of us occasionally imagine doing, but hopefully never go through with. The world media brought his suicide to our...
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Lou Reed, member of The Velvet Underground, wrote a poem, “O Delmore how I miss you,” to his college professor Delmore Schwartz in Poetry Magazine.“Reading Yeats and the bell had rung but the poem was...
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Second Acts: Delmore Schwartz
Stories by Delmore Schwartz are not nearly as abundant as stories about Delmore Schwartz. While the latter may be more amusing, they are ultimately tragic, for that is how Schwartz has gone down in...
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Sound & Vision: Anthony DeCurtis
Anthony DeCurtis’s music journalism has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, Vibe, and Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing editor. The essay he wrote to...
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Like Juggling Knives: Talking with Rumaan Alam
That Kind of Mother is Rumaan Alam’s second novel. Set in the 1980s, it’s the tale of Rebecca Stone, an aspiring poet in Washington, DC. She’s married to a very British man named Christopher. At the...
View ArticleA Tightrope Act: Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola
What compels us to poetry? It often happens that long immersion in literature is the impulse that turns life experience into verse. Susan de Sola certainly has that long immersion, as her biography and...
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