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The fifteenth anniversary of the death of a grievously neglected writer whom critics almost universally acclaim a creative genius.
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Book Review: “The Geography of the Imagination” — Longing for Something Lost
Touted as “perhaps the last great American polymath,” Guy Davenport had a singular mind; never was an artist more deserving of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grant.”
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