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W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith at a photography workshop in Eugene, Oregon, 1966. Photographs by Don Getsug. Since January 1997, I’ve been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith. I was thirty...
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House of Poesy: At the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is both a misnomer and an anomaly. It has long dedicated itself to the task of promoting the reading and writing of poetry and has, for...
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In the last month, thanks to some timely advice from Sam Lipsyte in the Oslo airport, I’ve gone back to two books that I could never get through as a kid: Blood Meridian and Sense and Sensibility....
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Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and...
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Lunch Poem Letters
Toward the end of college and for several years after, I kept two postcard photographs taped above my desk: one of Anaïs Nin, the other of Frank O’Hara—the mother and father of my literary interests...
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A Walk Around the Left Bank
Talking about the history of Shakespeare and Company on a stroll through Paris. From left to right: Sylvia Whitman, Lauren Elkin, and Krista Halverson. Photo: Mathew McWilliams It was the first of...
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Vodka for Breakfast: On the Melancholy of Cheever’s Journals
Detail from the cover of the Vintage Classics edition of Cheever’s Journals There is something feckless about a writer’s journals. They are a specialist’s document, and those who parse their pages are...
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