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Phishing for Poets [by Nin Andrews]
Now that AI has taken over, I seem to be getting more and more of these phishing emails, and they are quite funny. I wouldn't think much of it, except for the sad fact…
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On the occasional pleasure of email: Prix Viviane Esders for photography [By Tracy Danison]
“Tageslichte 67” (Daylight 67), 2017 © Dörte Eissfeldt Opening the email, I am subjugué – good word, wrapping together “convinced”, “under the spell” – by the art in the photographic creation of the three…
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Greg Delanty: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ A Routine Cleaning So, I’m in with my Hindu dental nurse, Kavita. She puts on the surgical gloves and lines up the implements (I think Nazi dentist, Sir Laurence Olivier, about to take…
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from “Lionel Trilling’s Literary Moralism” [by Michael Aeschliman]
<< As a sophisticated, agnostic New York Jew and the child of poor immigrants, Trilling was no stranger to WASP snobbery, antisemitism, and self-indulgence. Socially exclusive, Yale and Princeton in the 1920s and ’30s…
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‘What I Can See from Here” [by Tom Disch]
Tom Disch excelled at every literary genre he tried his hand at and had big infuential fans and yet — and yet he was dogged by bad luck, by a prejudice against genre fiction…
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3 Poems in One [by Martin Stannard]
The afternoon is all mine, and this afternoon three poems ofwhich I have no recollection of having written were publishedin a literary journal much admired by everyone who is in it,so I telephoned Customer…
