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Democracy 101

Mark Twain's farewell address

Figures of Speech

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. —Gustave Flaubert Notebook departs this month from the table of contents, its purpose served and its license expired after…

On the Shoulders of Giants

by Héctor Alvarez Castillo,Translated by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,

From a February 2, 1985, interview with Jorge Luis Borges, by Argentine poet and essayist Héctor Alvarez Castillo, included in Camino a Babel, self-published by Alvarez Castillo last year. Translated…

Death alone is motion

by Jack Spicer,

The mental kitchen

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,Translated by Richard Howard,

Notes for the time of ultimate candor

by Laura (Riding) Jackson,Edited by John Nolan,

The writers in the silos

by Harper’s Staff,

Authorship

That’s sic

Death by icicle

Democracy 101

Figures of Speech

Why I write

Purple prose

On the Shoulders of Giants

Death alone is motion

The mental kitchen

Notes for the time of ultimate candor

The writers in the silos

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Authorship

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That’s sic

Death by icicle

Democracy 101

Figures of Speech

Why I write

Purple prose

On the Shoulders of Giants

Death alone is motion

The mental kitchen

Notes for the time of ultimate candor

The writers in the silos

September 2007

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