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Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness?

From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that … Continue reading

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Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

I just watched a special on PBS that featured a lot of old folk singers from the late 50’s and 60’s, and I was struck by a very peculiar notion. That notion started to bubble through my brain a trickle … Continue reading

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