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… line that imposes everything onto her. The third line, completing the sentence, reconciles extremes in a generous … leaves him more anxious than most writers to reach that audience and shape their sense of him. He can only be who he … reviewing. This interesting bit of reception history points to cross currents in democracy itself: independence …
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… past couple of months”: [I]nvariably, in phone-tag intramurals preceding our meetings, every message Lee left on my … “me” / “see,” and “plain” / “Wayne,” are linguistically uncomplicated, as if simply revealing a hard truth, a “simple … rhyme adds vehemence to these harsh dismissals. It embodies the anger that the words express. “Poetry of bad …
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… writes in “Out on Bail,” one of eleven linked stories that comprise his 1992 masterpiece Jesus’ Son . “When I realized … codicil, that maybe he will be by the time we read him, is also correct. Here we see the true transference that … which I purposely held off reading for a few years after he died in 1988. I once felt about Carver the way I have come …
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… The classical era of the American space program has come to an end. After a quarter century in which peaceful … their location within l/100th of a mile. The system can also guide ballistic missiles with uncanny precision. The … period. Moreover, Earth’s geological history, once studied in isolation, now stands in a new relationship with the …
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… at Random House, on June 9 to update him on the project. Complaining about the inability to absorb the information he … Thompson convinced Silberman to obtain him press credentials for the Democratic Convention in August. Mingling among … that the Freak Power campaign of Joe Edwards for mayor embodied in the Aspen and Woody Creek community has relevant and …
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… of a life. The job of the biographer is to present a comprehensive character, a known person. This is the goal. … certain: For the new Negro to be born, the old Negro had to die, even if that death was imaginary. Langston Hughes performed such an execution in his 1926 essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” which …