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    Jan 16, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. W.D. Snodgrass dies at 83; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, teacher

    Associated Press
    W.D. Snodgrass, the prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, has died in upstate New York. He was 83. His family said he died Tuesday at his home in Erieville, N.Y., just east of Syracuse, after a four-month...

    Tags: Death, Career and Workplace, Poetry, Awards and Prizes, World War II (1939-1945)

    2. Aug 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Where's Weldon?

    The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, &quot;How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.
    The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

    Tags: Crimes, Eric Ambler, Charles Addams, Conrad Aiken, Sylvia Plath

    3. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

    Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop? And how, exactly, do you know when you're done?
    Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...

    Tags: John Adams, Cultural Development, Wim Wenders, Ken Burns, Bob Dylan

    4. Jul 19, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. A drama critic's turn to face the music

    Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word &quot;critic" in any book of quotations and see what you find.
    Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word "critic" in any book of quotations and see what you find. H.L. Mencken's "New Dictionary of Quotations" is full of zinger after zinger, most of which...

    Tags: Bette Davis, Opera (genre), Arts, Awards and Prizes, Defense

    5. Apr 13, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. English 101

    Each novelist requires circumstance &mdash; a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises &mdash; and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about a Fortune 500 company or those who built the Cabot Trail; why not invoke old campus adventures instead? That hoary advice to the young author &quot;write about what you know" results in volume after volume about school: All writers have been students, and nowadays a sizable number are teachers, so it seems nearly unavoidable that we write about the golden groves we knew.
    Each novelist requires circumstance — a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises — and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about...

    Tags: Bernard Malamud, Education, Tom Wolfe, Charles Dickens, John Barth

    6. Mar 26, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. "The Ask" by Sam Lipsyte

    &quot;The Ask"
    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    "The Ask" By Sam Lipsyte Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 296 pages,$25 It would be an inspired feat of academic guerilla terrorism to sabotage every American College Freshman Summer Reading Program by supplanting the usual earnest offerings with Sam Lipsyte's...

    Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Charity, Iraq, Social Issues, Wesleyan University

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