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My neighbor: Volodya Nabokov
Secretive Sam...at West Chester's Poetry Conference I had lunch on Memorial Day with poet R.S. Gwynn and his lovely wife Donna, the day before their 33rd anniversary, in a cosy little Mexican cafe on...
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But wait! It gets better! More on Huck Finn and the n-word.
Voilà! Yesterday, I wrote about the latest flap over Mark Twain‘s use of the n-word in Huckleberry Finn. NYC Councilman Charles Barron apparently thinks the book should be banned: “I find it...
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First the Book Haven — then the world. The Huck Finn “n-word” ignites the...
A classic: "a book which people praise and don't read." Well, well, well. We don’t like to brag … not much, anyway … but the whole world seems to have picked up on the Huck Finn and the n-word story,...
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The n-word controversy: Mark Bauerlein wraps it up in The Chronicle of Higher...
Earlier today, a friend mentioned that Mark Twain once said something like, “The easiest way to be recognized as a leader is to find a parade and get in front of it.” I can’t find the quote anywhere —...
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Stay tuned… more from Philadelphia, coming up soon!
The Book Haven has been unusually silent these last few days. We’ve been at the West Chester Poetry Conference outside Philadelphia, attending workshops, panels, and readings with Dick Davis, Dana...
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“It’s a negative freedom, something like a negative capability type of freedom.”
“I love the technical joy and pleasure,” says poet and translator Dick Davis. (Photo: L.A. Cicero) Our friend and eminent blogger Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence has a review over at the Los Angeles...
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A poetry prize for Dana Gioia, and a reading in an “otherworldly setting”
Dana Gioia reads his poems at the Roerich Museum Dana Gioia has won so many honors, awards, positions, distinctions, that it’s hard to keep track of them, but we can begin with his current...
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But wait! It gets better! More on Huck Finn and the n-word.
Voilà! Yesterday, I wrote about the latest flap over Mark Twain‘s use of the n-word in Huckleberry Finn. NYC Councilman Charles Barron apparently thinks the book should be banned: “I find it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
First the Book Haven — then the world. The Huck Finn “n-word” ignites the...
A classic: "a book which people praise and don't read." Well, well, well. We don’t like to brag … not much, anyway … but the whole world seems to have picked up on the Huck Finn and the n-word story,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The n-word controversy: Mark Bauerlein wraps it up in The Chronicle of Higher...
Earlier today, a friend mentioned that Mark Twain once said something like, “The easiest way to be recognized as a leader is to find a parade and get in front of it.” I can’t find the quote anywhere —...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stay tuned… more from Philadelphia, coming up soon!
The Book Haven has been unusually silent these last few days. We’ve been at the West Chester Poetry Conference outside Philadelphia, attending workshops, panels, and readings with Dick Davis, Dana...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“It’s a negative freedom, something like a negative capability type of freedom.”
“I love the technical joy and pleasure,” says poet and translator Dick Davis. (Photo: L.A. Cicero) Our friend and eminent blogger Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence has a review over at the Los Angeles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A poetry prize for Dana Gioia, and a reading in an “otherworldly setting”
Dana Gioia reads his poems at the Roerich Museum Dana Gioia has won so many honors, awards, positions, distinctions, that it’s hard to keep track of them, but we can begin with his current...
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