Joanna Newsom,
folk-rock poet
with a harp of gold
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Poetry, prizes & markets
in
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Happy 80th birthday,
Frank
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Christopher Sorrentino
on Thomas Pynchon’s
Against the Day
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Carlin Romano
also on
Against the Day
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”What was he thinking?”
Louis Menand
on
Against the Day
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“the sort of imitation of
a Thomas Pynchon novel
that a dogged but ungainly
fan of this author’s might have written
on quaaludes”
(Michiko Kakutani)
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Illustrating
Gravity’s Rainbow
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Selling
most famous painting
to Wal-Mart
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“When poetry
lays its hand on our shoulder”
& other platitudes
to make you cringe
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A completely different
set of poetry
clichés
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A piece
on Alice Walker
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Modernism
in
looks suspiciously
American
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The life of Susan Sontag
in the age of
photographic reproduction
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Two views
of the world of publishing:
(1) Alice Denham
(2) Al Goldstein
