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Sandy Solomon: Reading

The pasts, the past perfects: each sentence
a forest pool shining with borrowed,
broken light

May 7, 2025 · 13 Comments

David Kirby: The Questions That Matter Most by Jane Smiley (review)

The point [Smiley] misses is that the best writing often contains an element of the weird, the bizarre, the outlandish, the alienating. Call it wildness, if you will…

October 10, 2023 · 9 Comments

Baron Wormser: Lives of the Heroes

 When I was a boy, around the ages of nine and ten, I read dozens of biographies. I can still see the books.

December 11, 2022 · 7 Comments

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