February 2012
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From Sarah Manguso’s new book The Guardians, publishing this month.
(Curious? You can read an excerpt at The Paris Review.)
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I think we name ourselves, more or less, whenever we write, and thus tend always...
– Leonard Michaels, “Writing About Myself”
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Paul Goldstein: Congress Should Fix the Copyright...
Paul Goldstein is the Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford University and the author of two previous novels. His next book, Havana Requiem, will be published by FSG in April.
The real story behind the recent blowup over legislation regulating piracy on the Internet has less to do with the fears of motion picture studios or the intransigence of technology companies than with the legislative...
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Lapham's Quarterly: "A Few Words About My Wife,"... →
He’s too busy looking well-tailored, if you ask me.
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Oh Mayakovsky, why won’t you love me?
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2. A Few Words About My Wife
I have married the moon and she combs the water, the beaches of uncharted seas. She’s my lunar lady, she has long red hair and she drives a herd of horses through a screaming streak of stars! She gets married every evening in a...
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Nothing should be easier than talking about ways in which I write about myself,...
– Leonard Michaels, “Writing About Myself”
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BOOKS MATTER: the blog for people who smell books:... →
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At first, the storyline of Girlchild may seem a bit worn-out: a young girl, raised by a single mother in a trailer park, suffers from her family’s mistakes and struggles to comprehend them.
But within a few pages, readers will realize how unique Hassman’s novel is. It reaches dizzying heights…
Huzzah! This made my day.