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The American Scholar
Hundreds and Thousands The post Hundreds and Thousands appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Hundreds and Thousands

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The post Hundreds and Thousands appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The American Scholar
The Art of Doing Politics Sarah Stein Lubrano on prioritizing relationships over rationality The post The Art of...
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The Art of Doing Politics

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Sarah Stein Lubrano on prioritizing relationships over rationality The post The Art of <em>Doing</em> Politics appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by...
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What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader

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In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
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Escaping Flatland
A constellation of lookers Fragments, vol. 5
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A constellation of lookers

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Fragments, vol. 5
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Escaping Flatland
If you're facing a complicated decision, your first job isn't to find a solution, but to understand... Some housekeeping:
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If you're facing a complicated decision, your first job isn't to find a solution, but to understand the problem

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Some housekeeping:
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Wuthering...
Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree. Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the...
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Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree.

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Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the hellscape of the Thirty Years’ War.  Apparently that was not grim enough for him so his new novel, The Director (2023), although there is some early hopeful Hollywood sunshine, is about...
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The Elysian
We could return three continents of land to the wild And create an interspecies future that benefits humans and ecologies alike.
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We could return three continents of land to the wild

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And create an interspecies future that benefits humans and ecologies alike.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Something Which Longs to Be Filled' An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured...
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'Something Which Longs to Be Filled'

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An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured by Jean-Paul Sartre. The book is The Hole Book, written and illustrated by Peter Newell. A friend who collects vintage children’s books told me about it. The verse is serviceable...
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The Marginalian
Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously,...
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Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time

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Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously, as a coping mechanism for the confusions and cataclysms of living. I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people...
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The American Scholar
“Dead Man’s Hand” The post “Dead Man’s Hand” appeared first on The American Scholar.
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“Dead Man’s Hand”

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Anecdotal Evidence
'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named' It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all...
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'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named'

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It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all distinctions but absence. My brother (d. 2024) and Jane Greer, the North Dakota poet who died this week, would have had little in common in life. Ken had no use for poetry and he framed...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Writer Relies on Instinct and Intuition' V.S. Pritchett is asked in his Paris Review interview, “Do you think living and writing conflict?”...
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'A Writer Relies on Instinct and Intuition'

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V.S. Pritchett is asked in his Paris Review interview, “Do you think living and writing conflict?” – a rather silly question -- and he replies: “I have always thought that life and literature are intermingled and that this intermingling has been my quest.” Spoken like the kind of...
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The Marginalian
Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow...
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Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness

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There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance — the accident, the wildfire, the random intracellular mutation — are these little acts...
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The Marginalian
Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the...
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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition

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Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent and could not bear. To cope with the aching helplessness, I developed a private...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Every Garden Is a Vast Hospital' On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted...
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'Every Garden Is a Vast Hospital'

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On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted eight butterfly species there this summer and found a monarch chrysalis hanging from a tropical milkweed plant. Brown and green anoles have densely colonized the garden, which has never been...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Book That Everybody Can Understand' A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has...
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'A Book That Everybody Can Understand'

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A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has loaned him two nineteenth-century law books. Both were compiled by John G. Wells (1821-80) and were bestsellers in their day, long before the practice of law was fully...
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The Marginalian
How to Be a Happier Creature It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out...
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How to Be a Happier Creature

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It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and slippery, gills trembling with the shock of air, fins budding feet, limbs growing sinewy and furred, then unfurred, spine...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Old Men Are Generally Narrative' A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives...
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'Old Men Are Generally Narrative'

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A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives nearby. Our lives are well-populated. With age, that alignment of geography and acquaintance attenuates. Live long enough and our birthplace turns incrementally, across the decades,...
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The American Scholar
The Linguistics of Brain Rot Adam Aleksic on how social media is transforming our words The post The Linguistics of Brain Rot...
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The Linguistics of Brain Rot

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“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American...
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“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Only a Facsimile That Is Called Literature' I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive,...
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'Only a Facsimile That Is Called Literature'

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I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive, relaxed states of consciousness. I’m awake but almost empty. I might be taking a shower or staring out the window at nothing. That’s when I occasionally find myself in an old song or...
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The Marginalian
Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each step, we...
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Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan

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Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each step, we fall and then we catch ourselves, we choose to go one way and not another. The foot falls and worlds of possibility rise in its shadow. Every step remaps the psychogeography of the...
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The American Scholar
Dan Lynh Pham Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Dan Lynh Pham

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Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Delight Crowns All My Days, and Here I’ll Die' R.L. Barth has been translating the epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis – the first-century...
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'Delight Crowns All My Days, and Here I’ll Die'

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R.L. Barth has been translating the epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis – the first-century Roman poet Martial, as we know him – for more than forty years and now has self-published a collection of 104 of his translations (of the 1,561 Latin originals extant): Pleasing the...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things' Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between...
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'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things'

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Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between June 1580 and November 1581. He sought relief from the pain of kidney stones and visited numerous spas with mineral baths. As always, Montaigne is curious about everything – not just...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Put Out Their Eyes When It Was Dark' “The man who is both happy and an optimist is an imbecile.”  Happiness has always felt like the...
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'Put Out Their Eyes When It Was Dark'

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“The man who is both happy and an optimist is an imbecile.”  Happiness has always felt like the byproduct of life properly lived, not a goal unto itself. If I “behave” – live up to my own standards, not exaggerate my importance, pay minute attention to my conscience, respect...
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The Elysian
By all means, let private equity save capitalism We should get Wall Street involved too.
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By all means, let private equity save capitalism

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We should get Wall Street involved too.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Like an Enormous Yes' When my brother and I were growing up, books about the sort of music we liked – blues, jazz,...
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'Like an Enormous Yes'

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When my brother and I were growing up, books about the sort of music we liked – blues, jazz, country, some rock – were hard to find. Today, of course, the market is flooded with everything from fanboy gush to unreadable academic tracts. An exception in the sixties was the English...
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The American Scholar
Anne Labovitz To see and be seen The post Anne Labovitz appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anne Labovitz

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To see and be seen The post Anne Labovitz appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The American Scholar
Streams of Consciousness A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first...
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Streams of Consciousness

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A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Old News Flutters From a Bottom Drawer' Like most family history, it started as a rumor, a titillating story without context, myth-like....
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'Old News Flutters From a Bottom Drawer'

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Like most family history, it started as a rumor, a titillating story without context, myth-like. My mother had four brothers, three of whom were older. The oldest were Kenneth and Clifford. We never met the latter. Uncle Ken lived in Tampa, Fla., and we visited him in 1968, annus...
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The American Scholar
Horse and Runner The post Horse and Runner appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Horse and Runner

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Anecdotal Evidence
'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers' Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life...
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'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers'

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Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life spent mostly as a soldier, though he lived for some time in Paris and was befriended by Voltaire. His health was never good. No longer in the army, Vauvenargues died of complications...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Actual and the Unexceptional' In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and...
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'The Actual and the Unexceptional'

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In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and critics the following question: “To what book published in the past ten years do you find yourself going back--or thinking back--most often?” I take the question personally because I turned...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Ten-pound Life Will Give You Every Fact' On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight,...
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'A Ten-pound Life Will Give You Every Fact'

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On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight, let’s recall the sonnet he wrote about the treachery of biographers, “Second Death”:  “A ten-pound Life will give you every fact -- Facts that he’d hoped his friends would not rehearse To a...
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A readalong of Christopher Marlowe and friends - I fear they know we sent the poison'd broth Please join me this fall in reading the plays of Christopher Marlowe and some of his contemporaries,...
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A readalong of Christopher Marlowe and friends - I fear they know we sent the poison'd broth

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Please join me this fall in reading the plays of Christopher Marlowe and some of his contemporaries, if that sounds enjoyable to you.  The more I have thought about it, the more enjoyable it sounds to me.  I have many questions. Below is an attempt at a schedule, with a play...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Seemed to Think Lucidity All-sufficing' “[T]here is a very widespread and comfortable belief that we are all of us born writers. Not long...
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'He Seemed to Think Lucidity All-sufficing'

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“[T]here is a very widespread and comfortable belief that we are all of us born writers. Not long ago I heard that agile and mellifluous quodlibetarian, Dr. Joad, saying in answer to a questioner who wanted to write good letters, that anybody could write good letters: one had but...
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The Marginalian
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the... “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one...
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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Given that the deepest measure of intelligence is a...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'They Never Shun the Man of Sorrow' Part of me resists the notion of books as medicine, as one-dose cures for life’s pains and...
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'They Never Shun the Man of Sorrow'

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Part of me resists the notion of books as medicine, as one-dose cures for life’s pains and disappointments. Too often, volumes touted for their therapeutic qualities are accompanied by nasty side effects: lousy writing, including clichés and soft-headed reasoning. Such books risk...
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The American Scholar
{…} by Fady Joudah Poems read aloud, beautifully The post {…} by Fady Joudah appeared first on The American Scholar.
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{…} by Fady Joudah

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post {…} by Fady Joudah appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Shakespeare of the Essay Form' “ordinary sanity in extraordinary prose”  The phrase is the American poet David Mason’s in his essay...
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'The Shakespeare of the Essay Form'

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“ordinary sanity in extraordinary prose”  The phrase is the American poet David Mason’s in his essay “The Freedom of Montaigne.” In characterizing the Frenchman and his essays, Mason describes an ideal seldom attained and occasionally scorned. Today, extreme, sweeping statements...
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The Marginalian
Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live in, marriages to love in,...
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Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

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We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live in, marriages to love in, ideologies to think in — and yet some primal part of us knows that none abides, knows that we pay for these comforting illusions with our very aliveness. Wonder — that edge state on the...
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The Elysian
How I crowdfunded a $60,000+ book advance Plus, my plans for the book from here.
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How I crowdfunded a $60,000+ book advance

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Plus, my plans for the book from here.
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The American Scholar
“Hitler’s First Photograph” by Wislawa Szymborska Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hitler’s First Photograph” by Wislawa Szymborska appeared...
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“Hitler’s First Photograph” by Wislawa Szymborska

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hitler’s First Photograph” by Wislawa Szymborska appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Entertain As Well As Illuminate' “I was the sort of boy who always connected life and art, mixing them up, feeling the way art lives...
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'Entertain As Well As Illuminate'

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“I was the sort of boy who always connected life and art, mixing them up, feeling the way art lives in time and out of it, just like the human mind and imagination.”  Spend enough time reading enough books and you will encounter a strangely familiar character: a funhouse mirror...
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'Come Back Now As You Were in Youth' “Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.”  Donald Justice often skirts...
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'Come Back Now As You Were in Youth'

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“Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.”  Donald Justice often skirts sentimentality in his poems, teetering at the lip of a cheap conceit, but preserves his integrity with craft and an intelligent capacity for nostalgia coupled with the gift of...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Disposed to Make Concessions to the World' Philip Larkin, famously childless, first drafted “Take One Home for the Kiddies” in 1954. Then it...
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'Not Disposed to Make Concessions to the World'

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Philip Larkin, famously childless, first drafted “Take One Home for the Kiddies” in 1954. Then it was titled “Pets.” He completed the retitled poem on this date, August 13, in 1960, and included it in The Whitsun Weddings (1964):  “On shallow straw, in shadeless glass, Huddled by...
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The American Scholar
The Lady Vet The post The Lady Vet appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Lady Vet

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Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonialism: Brian Eno on Carnival as a Model for... The prisons we choose to live inside hardly ever look like prisons while we are living in them. If...
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Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonialism: Brian Eno on Carnival as a Model for Saving Culture

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The prisons we choose to live inside hardly ever look like prisons while we are living in them. If the twentieth century was the age of dictatorships — I grew up in one — reducing human beings to a herd, the twenty-first century, with its self-appointed moral despots, is the age...
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Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversation Between Our Living Planet and Its Dying Star “You have found an intermediate space… where the passing moment lingers, and becomes truly the...
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Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversation Between Our Living Planet and Its Dying Star

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“You have found an intermediate space… where the passing moment lingers, and becomes truly the present,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his transcendent portrait of the transition from sleep to wakefulness. The experience of waking — that phase transition between the liquid...
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