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Michael O’Keefe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________ Put Up Your Dukes The last time my father beat me I was fifteen years old. After instructing me to “mow the fucking lawn,” to which I wittily replied, “No fucking way,”…
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Sir Larry: an astrological profile [by David Lehman]
On this day in 1989, Sir Laurence Olivier breathed his last. The great actor was eighty-two when he shuffled off this mortal coil. He was a master of accents and disguises. As a young…
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“In Shakespeare” [by James Richardson]
In Shakespeare a lover turns into an assas you would expect. People confusetheir consciences with ghosts and witches.Old men throw everything awaybecause they panic and can=t feel their lives.They pinch themselves, pierce themselves with…
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Perne in a Gyre [by Mitch Sisskind]
1.Think about it for a minute and you'll seeHow nothing is further in the past than Anything else. Either it's in the past or It's not. Boom, bang. Case closed. You may think the pyramids…
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“Perhaps a Sentence”: The Rationale for Creative Writing [by Irwin Shaw]
<<<It is generally believed in literary cricles that everybody has at least one novel in him. I doubt that. I have found a few men and women who do have one novel in them,…
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Molly Arden writes a poem [by Molly Arden]
I started writing this poem some years ago when I spent a semester at Magdalen College in Oxford. It turned up today when I took out my Magdalen College folder and remembered having lunch…
