“It says here to burn the rich and take their shit”: An interview with poet Michael Robbins
While I could start by quoting Benjamin on Baudelaire, or make some sweeping — and likely very silly– statement about
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Read moreThe cover of Lydia Davis’s new collection of (very) short stories is printed simply with an excerpt from the four-line
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Read moreIn “Digital Witness,” the first single of St. Vincent’s latest album, Annie Clark laments over a throbbing array of guitars:
Read moreThe usual rap on post-World War II city planners is that they ruined our cities with their highways and shopping
Read moreJonathan Franzen’s reception at Swarthmore last spring was lukewarm. He spoke fatalistically of the social impact of fiction and disavowed
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