Brave New Literary World
I recently saw a tweet by writer Thomas Chatterton Williams that said, “We are going to need very brave novelists again.” My first reaction was that he’s right. My second…
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Clint Margrave
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Clint Margrave is the author of the novel Lying Bastard (Run Amok Books, 2020) and two poetry collections, Salute the Wreckage (NYQ Books, 2016) and The Early Death of Men (NYQ Books, 2012). He lives in Los Angeles, CA., U.S.A. Start a conversation with Clint: https://letter.wiki/ClintMargrave/conversations.
Italians Singing from Balconies
Murray Siskind, a character in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, once remarks that human beings form crowds as a “shield against their own dying” because “to become a crowd is…
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Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?
It was bound to happen. As Mark Twain writes in “Corn Pone Opinions,” our self-approval is “acquired mainly from the approval of other people.” Our ideas don’t come from “thinking…
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Forgiving Charles Simic
I haven’t read Charles Simic in four years. Even though he’s one of my all-time favorite poets: born in Belgrade, an immigrant to the US at sixteen, a Pulitzer Prize…
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