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Edna O'Brien, The Art of Fiction No. 82

Edna O’Brien resembles one of her own heroines: beautiful in a subtle, wistful way, with reddish-blond hair, green eyes, and a savage sense of humor. She lives alone in an airy, spacious…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7777 words)

by Mortimer J. Adler

From the book Modern English ReadingsEdited by Roger Sherman Loomis and Donald Lemen Clark Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1942, fourth printing - hardcover (from pages 268 - 272) HOW TO MARK A…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2063 words)

The Bookstore Strikes Back

In late February I am in my basement, which is really a very nice part of my house that is not done justice by the word basement. For the purposes of this story, let’s call it the Parnassus…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4493 words)

Thank You, Thank You

April is Poetry Month, the Academy of American Poets tells us. In 2012, there were seven thousand four hundred and twenty-seven poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3004 words)

The Bookstore Brain

If you could create a bookstore, what would you put in it? What would you exclude? Would you specialize in any particular genre? Would your organizing principle be quantity or quality, or would you…
AUTHOR:Sam Sacks
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1960 words)

Oscar Wilde's faithless Christianity

On 19th May 1897, Oscar Wilde was released from prison after two years' detention for acts of gross indecency. He handed a manuscript of some 50,000 words to his loyal friend and sometime lover,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 15, 2009
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2077 words)

An Interview with Moya Cannon

Moya Cannon I found Carrying the Songs a great introduction to your poetry. It displays the elegance of your poems, your strong, sensual connection to nature, and your musicality in both subject…
AUTHOR:S. Wilde
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3067 words)

Cold Pastoral

When Marina Keegan died, tragically, at the age of twenty-two, in a car accident in May, she had just graduated from Yale University and was about to start a job on the editorial staff of The New…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7018 words)
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Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters

A postcard written by Hitler in January 1915. His writing style indicates his megalomaniacal psychopathy, say graphologists. Photograph: The Granger Collection / TopFoto About six months ago, I…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3764 words)
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