"The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://xitter.cf/t.co/vLg0PJLabo

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I'm excited to announce that my book "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" will be published by Knopf in March. It's a group biography of the New York School of Poets, centered on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch.
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"For all of her association with youth, Plath seems to me a poet of how young life is relived—not childhood or adolescence, but its refracted return." On Sylvia Plath's birthday, read the brilliant Kristin Grogan on her new editions: bostonreview.net/articles/yo…
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The clowning industry needs a PR makeover. Our children are growing up in a world where they have never known a single non-scary clown
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For the 17th year in a row, Lane Pryce ranks as the #1 Halloween costume in America among both men and women
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paramount pest control sign, 1940s
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This is an interesting point, from @kunktation's review of the new Cormac McCarthy bio. Who will be the first literary biographer to make extensive use of social media and text messages?
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This paragraph by Aldous Huxley is quite a journey
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Earlier this year, Sarah Chihaya was diagnosed with MSA—a terminal neurodegenerative disease. Right now, she can no longer read or write—this will be her last piece. And it's a brilliant one about Emily Brontë and unknowability. thenation.com/article/cultur…
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Peter Hujar’s fame, Max Norman writes in his October column, finally “seems to have caught up with that of his subjects.” What would our narrative about the history of American photography look like if it hadn’t taken so long? newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p…
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However it did immediately make me think of Samuel L. Jackson saying “Check out the big brain on Brad,” and for that I'm grateful youtube.com/watch?v=Hrm-rPSC…
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On the short list of my favorite Ashbery poems. He must really have been riding some high when he got to those lines about the segments of the orange.
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We, as a society, haven’t given enough acclaim to the recorded output of Jens Lekman
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Auteur theory is a hell of a drug
David Foster Wallace on 'Twin Peaks'
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never gets old
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