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Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves

July 18, 2021
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Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.

Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery

August 3, 2017
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This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.

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