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Theory and Practice
Walter Gramatté, Trinker (detail), 1922. Let’s say you’ve had a long day, have a rare evening to yourself, and decide to treat yourself to dinner out. You sit at a restaurant bar with a good book, a...
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Sing It, Walt! and Other News
Whitman at age twenty-eight, 1848. After seventeen years, Judy Blume is publishing a new novel—for adults. “In so many of Blume’s books, her main characters’ bodies insist on their inherent, primal...
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Om Alone
Bess Wohl’s play Small Mouth Sounds returns to the stage.My friend D’s first retreat was a dive into the deep end. It was ten days long, silent, held at a famous meditation center, and led by a...
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The Mind in Solitude: An Interview with Claire-Louise Bennett
Photo © Conor HorganStrange things happen when you live alone. When you’re no longer required to eat dinner at a particular time, or to close the bathroom door to shower, your relationship to the space...
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Into the Woods
What should I bring on my writing retreat?Arthur Bowen Davies, Hudson Valley Landscape, 1914–18.I’m off to the woods to live deliberately! Or, just to live, as it were—all I can do is hope that my...
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Pick Up the Phone, Bob, and Other News
Can you hear me, Bob? Bob?[Beep.] Is it rolling, Bob? Ha, get it, that’s from Nashville Skyline … which all of us here at the Academy just adore, by the way—your voice sounds so beautiful without all...
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A Fresh Bag of Bananas
The poet James Wright was born on this day in 1927. In September 1975, he answered a fan letter with the story of how he’d cheered up a lonely poet (Bill Knott, no less) one Thanksgiving: with...
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A Private Literature
Seeing manuscripts after Susan Howe. Robert Walser, Microscript 215, October–November 1928. Courtesy Robert Walser-Zentrum, © Keystone / Robert Walser-Stiftung Bern. “Emerging from an Abyss, and...
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Theory and Practice
Walter Gramatté, Trinker (detail), 1922. Let’s say you’ve had a long day, have a rare evening to yourself, and decide to treat yourself to dinner out. You sit at a restaurant bar with a good book, a...
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Sing It, Walt! and Other News
Whitman at age twenty-eight, 1848. After seventeen years, Judy Blume is publishing a new novel—for adults. “In so many of Blume’s books, her main characters’ bodies insist on their inherent, primal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Om Alone
Bess Wohl’s play Small Mouth Sounds returns to the stage. My friend D’s first retreat was a dive into the deep end. It was ten days long, silent, held at a famous meditation center, and led by a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Mind in Solitude: An Interview with Claire-Louise Bennett
Photo © Conor Horgan Strange things happen when you live alone. When you’re no longer required to eat dinner at a particular time, or to close the bathroom door to shower, your relationship to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Into the Woods
What should I bring on my writing retreat? Arthur Bowen Davies, Hudson Valley Landscape, 1914–18. I’m off to the woods to live deliberately! Or, just to live, as it were—all I can do is hope that my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pick Up the Phone, Bob, and Other News
Can you hear me, Bob? Bob? [Beep.] Is it rolling, Bob? Ha, get it, that’s from Nashville Skyline … which all of us here at the Academy just adore, by the way—your voice sounds so beautiful without all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Fresh Bag of Bananas
The poet James Wright was born on this day in 1927. In September 1975, he answered a fan letter with the story of how he’d cheered up a lonely poet (Bill Knott, no less) one Thanksgiving: with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Private Literature
Seeing manuscripts after Susan Howe. Robert Walser, Microscript 215, October–November 1928. Courtesy Robert Walser-Zentrum, © Keystone / Robert Walser-Stiftung Bern. “Emerging from an Abyss, and...
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