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The Sharpened Pencil: An Interview with Nicholson Baker
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Poetry Is the Evidence of Life, and Other News
Leonard Cohen in 1988.Leonard Cohen has died at eighty-two. Less than a month ago, David Remnick profiled him for The New Yorker, and Cohen knew his time was near: “I don’t think I’ll be able to finish...
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William Carlos Williams’s “Election Day”
An abandoned grade school in La Prairie Center, Illinois, used as a polling place in 1973. Photo: National Archive Your typical polling center seldom evokes the poetic. In my neighborhood, we’re...
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Teaching Twin Peaks at Sweet Briar
Remembering a momentous semester as Twin Peaks turns twenty-five and Sweet Briar closes its doors. The Sweet Briar House. In 2012, I taught a freshman comp class called Myths About Women. The primary...
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The Sharpened Pencil: An Interview with Nicholson Baker
Photo: Jerry Bauer Speaking to The Paris Review in 2011, Nicholson Baker remembered one of the small joys of his childhood. “The pencil sharpener was probably the best thing about school,” he said. “A...
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Poetry Is the Evidence of Life, and Other News
Leonard Cohen in 1988. Leonard Cohen has died at eighty-two. Less than a month ago, David Remnick profiled him for The New Yorker, and Cohen knew his time was near: “I don’t think I’ll be able to...
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