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Writers Recommend

With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on December 10, 2008 1:20 PM

Alison Lurie's <i>Familiar Spirits</i>

Familiar Spirits is Alison Lurie's 2001 memoir of two men with whom she was friends for nearly 40 years&ndash; celebrated poet James Merrill, and his partner David Jackson. According to Lurie, the young Jackson was as talented as the...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on May 23, 2008 4:32 PM

A Day at the Beach, 1984

How many words is a picture worth if its subjects have penned more than many thousands of bestselling words apiece, already read by tens of thousands of readers? If in their beach bags are five Pulitzer Prizes, a few National Book Awards, two Bollingen Prizes, and office stationery from the U.S. Poet Laureate?

Posted by Arlo Haskell on April 29, 2008 3:39 PM