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A.E. Hotchner on Hemingway's "new" 'A Moveable Feast'

The account of how A Moveable Feast came into being from Hotchner's point-of-view is probably more interesting than the actual controversy itself....

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bad poetry

Diffident breezes pass plastic bags and silicone through the continuum, a fit of shade, a narrow corruption. Pages of fiction, explanatory answers flit like switchgrass in July, the month of fuck all, with peppers of malaise and torrid prudence....

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Salmon Fantasies, Sugar Grains

I can't begin to tell you what a great article David Grossman wrote about the Polish writer Bruno Schulz in the double issue of the New Yorker last month. Read it, indulge. There really is no one better than David...

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Starlight, PA

My first and last foray into writing for young adults. When I was sixteen years old, I boarded a bus from Newark Airport to reach a place I knew only as Starlight, PA. The name itself, Starlight, had magical...

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