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… by Vernon A. Walters. Doubleday $12.95 To those who have studied the few available transcripts, Vernon Walters’s … Novels degenerates into the usual academic form. That is, points are taken in opposition to previously expressed … illusions across the international landscape (such as 7-26 …

… coasters, blowing smoke, talking and listening. . .equals. Is there anything lovelier than an amber ale in bar … off during my final two seasons. After trouncing the competition at the state championship as a freshman and … golf. I had every assurance I needed: I was a winner. Coming down our street in the rain, you’d pass a dozen …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … people I come from. The white people I come from fought and died for their Lost Cause. And I ask you now, who dares to … them? Who dares to ask me to accept their mounted pedestals? Executive Editor Allison Wright Excerpt from You Want a …

… Yvor Winters at Stanford When I first met Yvor Winters 26 years ago, on my arrival as a new instructor in the … I was surprised to find him a rotund figure with a florid complexion. One could tell even before hearing him speak … Stanford, Winters had never read his poems to a Stanford audience, although the English Department and the University …

… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …