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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Edward Field
is just one of two
”NY School poets”
from The New American Poetry
still alive

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“The most influential poet
you never heard of

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John Perrault & Carolee Schneeman
on the performance work
of Hannah Weiner
(MP4)

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Richard Knight
on the art of Roberto Harrison

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The poet laureate of New Bedford, MA
currently is reading Phil Whalen,
Joanne Kyger & Afaa Michael Weaver

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Raves for The Four Horsemen Project

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9 poets 9 cities

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Robert Pinsky on Jimmy Schuyler

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The new generation of poetry editors
suggests that the
School of Q
can’t find qualified poets
who are U.S.-born
(anglophilia in the age of globalization?)

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Melville the poet

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Jamming with Charlie & Bob

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Simone de Beauvoir at 100

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The poet behind Star Trek & The Matrix

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Catullus & Lesbia

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Phil Levine is 80

Levine reading in Berkeley 1998

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Not the muse:
a profile of Dorothy Stafford

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Nigerian & Romanian poets
as seen from
Nova Scotia

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Abdullah Goran & Kurdish modernism

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Eight new members of the National Books Critics Circle

Plus Ron Padgett & Victor Hernandez Cruz
named as chancellors
of the
Academy of American poets

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The laureate as carpenter

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Opening the fly of A.M. Klein

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About Brian Mornar

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Poetry, depression & suicide
in 1930s
Korea

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A roundup of some poets
& poetic prose

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115 new bookstores opened in 2007
(forgets to mention the roughly 250 that closed)

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore pieces
come from Ashland, Oregon & Ithaca, NY
but in Philly
it’s readers to the rescue

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Borders gets all poetical
with Mark Strand, Paul Muldoon, a contest,
a little slammin’ & a lot of quietude

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A blog devoted to the sound of language

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Striking writers
& the conundrum of publicity

Why aren’t more women writers
out on strike?

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The librarian of Baghdad

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How universities work

Marc Bousquet’s weblog

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Picture poets

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Voice recognition & the language

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The race to sell books

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The art of bookcrossing

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Literate cities

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Johnny can’t read – so what?

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When a member of the Forbes family
writes verse

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Save the art of correspondence!

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Listen to the Eliot shortlist

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Between the written & the visual

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Is J-school necessary?

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When the classics are a snooze

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“You don’t need a weatherman
to know which way the wind blows

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The films of Henry Hills
including my one cinematic credit
(MOV)

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Dvorak, “the negrophile

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A visit with George Herms

George Herms & Allen Ginsberg,
interviewed by Charlie Rose

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The writer’s brush

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Who gets Trafalgar Square?

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When is a Warhol Warhol?

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Boy Picasso

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Raping Europa & The Barnes

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This blog received 2105 visits
on Wednesday,
the most ever for one day

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Did Borges invent the internet?

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Mary Oliver’s tribute
to Molly Malone Cook

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The first half
of Tom Devaney’s tour
of Poe’s house
in the new Sienese Shredder

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Talking with Hoa Nguyen

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Personality & influence
in the work of Gertrude Stein

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Wednesday night, January 9
5 PM Pacific, 8 PM Eastern
Bowery Women on
the Moe Green Radio Hour

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Early Pound

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Bibliotherapy

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Nonreading for dummies – not!

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Iran’s crackdown on literature

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Raymond Queneau’s last book
& “his most momentous”

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Sleeping with Simone

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Experimental (and other) poetry
in contemporary India

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Some terrific sonnets
from Christian Hawkey

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Remembering Sandy Taylor

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Memories of Moondog

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Howard Junker in defense of Gordon Lish

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Donald Hall’s New Hampshire

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The “ultimate Bukowski

Bukloved Hitler

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A belated obit
for Liam O’Gallagher

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Bangla poetry in exile:
Shahid Quadri

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Bug House poetics

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The politics of Peter Handke

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The lost art of letter writing

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Shepherd Bliss
on poetry & farming

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Translator as traitor

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Thomas Lynch
on Susan Sontag’s son

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Make it new!
(1878-1917)

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Why the writers’ strike drags on

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Construction grammar

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Gandalf reads The Prelude

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Life at the library

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Remember the dead

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Killing dead poets

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Poetry New Hampshire

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Talking with Daljit Nagra

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The Veterans Writing Group
& Maxine Hong Kingston

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Mutanabi Street
is starting to recover

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore pieces
come from Seattle and Salt Lake City

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Bookselling in a post-literate world

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In Japan, reading declines

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Jean Sprackland wins the Costa

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Purgatory Chasm

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Cold as a tomb of an infant emperor

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Indian poetry in Poetry

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Goethe, the Persian

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Childhood’s end

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Reviews of Bob Hass & Denis Johnson

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Missouri’s first poet laureate

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Behind Boston’s move for a poet laureate

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Potter profits enable Raincoast
to cut Canadian authors

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Commie poet in South Africa

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Teacher wins UA poetry award

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Talking with Robert Johnson

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Poetics of the drunken mother

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Louis MacNeice’ “Cradle Song” considered

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The argument for John Crowley

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Quad Cities searches for its poet laureate

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Richard Tillinghast on Dennis O’Driscoll

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Surprised by joy in Portsmouth, NH

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Rumi for Twentysomethings

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Talking with January O’Neill

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Graphic novel book clubs

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A “middleweightSchool of Q anthology

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The upper classes no longer form an elite
(D’oh!)

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The “greatest British writer since 1945”
& other hallucinations

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Protecting the world from the far left
by giving it tenure

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The unwritten

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Dipping madeleines with Marcel

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The humanities
are of no use whatsoever

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Quiet times at the NEA

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Robert Ashley’s “She Was a Visitor
(MP3)

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Red Allen would have been 100 this week

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Pulling strings

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The rest is noise

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The Americanization of Israeli art

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The man who owned Warhol

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I, me, mine

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Jasper John’s ”Bushbabies

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The fate of 500 Capp Street

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Miracle on the Bowery

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Prefab rehab

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What is “original”?

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Should artists retire?

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New work from Trevor Winkfield

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The Vancouver School

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Art vs. society in Anne Arundel County

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The fruit that changed the world

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Between experience & ideology

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Common sense

Friday, January 04, 2008

Remembering Sylvester Pollet

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The new poetry editor of The Nation
is Peter Gizzi

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42 years after Denise Levertov rejected
Jack Spicer’s
Two Poems for The Nation
they finally appear
in its pages
[subscription required]

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“The most important
American love poet in living memory,
and certainly one of the most important
American poets tout court” –
Susan Stewart on Robert Creeley

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Leslie Scalapino’s introduction to
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

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Susan Bee, Emma Bee Bernstein & Charles Bernstein
reading from Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journal

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Sardinian poet Peppino Marroto killed
in 50-year-old vendetta

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Boog City 47
is an anthology
of
New York poets
(PDF)

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The AWP convention is
sold out!

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Becoming fluent in Beckett

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Word!

Word not!

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In New Orleans, one newspaper
expands its book coverage

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Vandals trash Frost home

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A boost to Pangasinan literature

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Talking with Kaiser Haq

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A profile of Jessica Purdy

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Print-on-demand is expanding
the number of titles published

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Poetry by the Mersey

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The gloomiest poet in Britain

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Young rhymer inspired by Dylan

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Are e-textbooks any closer to reality?

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World lit comes to Abu Dhabi

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“It has not been a good decade for poetry”

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Tom Wolfe leaves FSG

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The importance of knowing
what you haven’t read

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Academic librarians & rank

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Do IRBs keep oral moral?

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Why travel writing sucks

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Talking with Roger Conover
about MIT Press

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It’s not how long you live
so much as it is
how you live, as such

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Weepin’ Willie Robinson has died

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Fungus threatens Lascaux

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Lee Friedlander,
walking through Olmstead’s world

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Art vs. art history

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Polis is this

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Tech & the humanities muddle along

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A bio of Alfred Kazin

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Morris Dickstein on the memoirs of Geoffrey Hartman

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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

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There goes the West Side