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Fall 2013

Fall 2013

Iconoclasts

Volume 89, Number 4

  • Jeff Sharlet on Harry Belafonte’s unfinished fight
  • Garret Keizer on the enduring power of Motown’s music
  • Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney’s art in the shadow of mortality
  • William Ferris and Eudora Welty on her life and writing
  • Fiction by Lisa Cupolo, Colin Fleming, Allan Gurganus, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Maya Lang
  • Poetry by Greg Alan Brownderville, David Caplan, Danielle Chapman, Rachel Hadas, Linda Pastan, and Kevin Young
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Belafonte with Ed Sullivan, mid-1950s. (Everett Collection)

Voice and Hammer

By Jeff Sharlet

Fall 2013

Once, more than half a century ago, he was the handsomest man in the world. A radiant man. It was a matter of bearing, of voice and gesture and timing. He had that high, buttery baritone, nothing special really, except, he says, “I knew how to use it.”

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Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet is an associate professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College and a VQR Editor at Large.

Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer’s many books include The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want (PublicAffairs, 2010), Privacy (Picador, 2012), and Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher (Metropolitan Books, 2014).

Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler, a contributing editor to VQR, is the former director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and artistic director emeritus of the Chicago Humanities Festival.