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The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.
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The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson
She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.
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The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The College Syllabi That Shaped ‘The Waste Land’
Indeed, the famous eclecticism of “The Waste Land,” which incorporates quotations from multiple languages and literatures, can be seen as a tribute to the educational philosophy that governed Harvard during Eliot’s time there… Yet as Crawford shows in the impressively researched Young Eliot, the “melange of topics” that Eliot explored in college “mightily enriched his poetry.” […]
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You Can Do Anything if You Just Do it Slowly: An Interview with Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff on not knowing what you’re doing, the thrill of the mess, and using all your senses to find a way in to the story.
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Get to Know the National Book Award Finalists for Nonfiction
This reading list features the five nonfiction nominees for the National Book Awards. The winner be announced on November 18, 2015.
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Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Teachings Win Bassett | Poetry Foundation | May 27, 2015 | 15 minutes (3,780 words) On poetry and dying: Win Bassett reflects […]
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When Your Lost Phone Ends Up in Yemen
In the summer of 2013, a New York yuppie lost her iPhone in the Hamptons. A few months later, she got an alert saying that her phone had been turned on in Yemen, and then candid pictures of a Yemeni family started filling her iCloud account. The phone was soon updated under the name of its new owner, a teenager […]
