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Didion bombs.(Joan Didion's review of Unabomber victim's book 'Drawing Life' by David Gelertner)
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May 4, 1998|
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A disquisition on madness is an occasion for hilarity.
Mr. O'Sullivan is an NR editor-at-large.
FOR a literary magazine, The New York Review of Books has a curiously intimate relationship with bombs. In the Sixties, it published on its cover a diagram on the construction and ingredients of a Molotov cocktail. (Roger Kimball tells us in his droll New Criterion account of how TNYRB helped to make Sixties radicalism chic that David Levine, its resident and brilliant caricaturist, responsibly refused to draw the device.) Other New York Review contributors at that time ...
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The People He Met
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...with precision, care, and compassion. Meeting with Alfred Kreymborg, relic of the l920s, Elman ruefully discloses himself...When I was young, I could not imagine myself in Kreymborg's shoes. Now, past middle age, with so many books...
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When We Were Very Young
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...riveted, of course. He also proffered Mushrooms by Alfred Kreymborg-he read me a poem from that collection beginning...Wherefore is life, think you?" I have never come across Kreymborg's poems since. Conrad introduced me to Gertrude...
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Marianne Moore: A Literary Life.
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...the 1920s, after she had moved to New York, editor Alfred Kreymborg decided to stump her. Figuring that her sheltered...literary matters right up to the first pitch. As Kreymborg's 1925 autobiography, Troubador, tells it, he...
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Commentary: Remembering writers who passed away this year
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...in my lifetime. Gene Derwood; Lloyd Frankenberg; Alfred Hayes; Coman Leavenworth; John Thompson Jr. `But...Rice; H. Phelps Putnam; William Ellery Leonard; Alfred Kreymborg. `And one great secret is simply this: How taken...
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A Margery Latimer checklist.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; ...1932; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. "Letters to Georgia O'Keeffe.' The New Caravan. Ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld. New York: Norton, 1936. 488-93. Guardian Angel and Other Stories [collected...
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Veterans Day: Amid more conflict
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...cemetery at Gettsyburg, 1863 *** "Doughboys were paid a whole dollar a day/ and received free burial under the clay/ And movie heroes are paid even more/ shooting one another in a Hollywood war." - Alfred Kreymborg, What Price Gl
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Composer Gardner Read at 85: distinctly, eminently various
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...course the point. The Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 69, ranged from a corkingly vigorous secular hymn (Alfred Kreymborg's "Lullaby for a Dark Hour") to the sort of Traditional Old English rum-tum ("As I walked through the meadows...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Birthday words...(Astrology)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; "The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the Sun and Moon keep their diary." - American poet Alfred Kreymborg, born this day in 1883. "The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self." - Scottish novelist George MacDonald, born this day in 1824.
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Louise Bogan in her prose.(Biography)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review
; ...Louise had begun to earn a small reputation as a poet, having joined a literary circle that gathered first around Alfred Kreymborg's publication Others, then around the magazine The M
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COMPOSER GARDNER READ AT 85: DISTINCTLY, EMINENTLY VARIOUS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...course the point. The Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 69, ranged from a corkingly vigorous secular hymn (Alfred Kreymborg's "Lullaby for a Dark Hour") to the sort of Traditional Old English rum-tum ("As I walked through the meadows...
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