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Jun.06.2012
Haikus grip one end of the literary tiara, next to longer poems. Sagas are at the other end, next to novels. At the center, set slightly above the others, with its eye on all of them, is a well-crafted short story like the one Jennifer Egan has written.
Pulitzer-holding Jennifer Egan...
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Mar.10.2012
This is one of my earliest blogs, from 2009. I'm still getting comments on it, so I'm re-posting.
Even if it weren't initially written as a preface to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" would continue to be widely anthologized and read. ...
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Feb.11.2012
As the Poetry Foundation states: Sharon Olds is one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices. Winner of several prestigious awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, Olds is known for writing intensely personal, emotionally scathing poetry which graphically depicts family life...
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Feb.02.2012
I was fortunate to be one of the six hundred plus in the audience when Ann Patchett, a popular novelist, read from her work and answered questions at Stanford Tuesday night. Introduced glowlingly by Eavan Boland and Tobias Wolff, she starred. Standing away from the lectern,...
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Jan.17.2012
This is the first of three posts that update the lives of my three children, whom many readers know from my poetry book.
Johnna’s work was featured in a three-person show at the Traywick Gallery in Berkeley that opened yesterday. She is the photographer of the family, the subject of the...
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Jan.05.2012
I like to think of myself as a Centrist, so if you’re looking for a right-wing or left-wing point of view, I’m not your guy. If ‘fair and balanced’ hadn’t been so maligned by Fox News, that would be my goal.
Gails of Laughter, though: With that in mind, while Gail Collins isn’t my very...
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Dec.26.2011
We were among the Christmas-day throng that went to see the opening day of War Horse, and we weren’t disappointed. It’s a little like watching a State-of-the-Union address by a master politician; all the right notes are hit in the right order; no heart-string isn’t strummed. The anti-...
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Dec.15.2011
Here’s a “hundred best” list of Christmas movies that pretty much covers the territory. For those of us who are of a certain age, the fact that five of the “top eight” movies are pre-1950 ensures that the standbys that have become part of the season are not just included, but...
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Dec.13.2011
Insult, it seems to me, was added to injury yesterday in the sad story of Ronald Wayne. Wayne, the man who owned 10% of Apple Computers for less than two weeks before he sold his share, which would now be worth roughly $2,000,000,000.00, for $2300.00. He’d lost money in another...
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Oct.21.2011
I’ve volunteered at the Kidney Foundation Literary Luncheon for the last six years. I work with the authors to keep the long book-signing lines as short as possible. If you’re in San Francisco and can come, do. This year it’s at the Mariott SF Marquis Hotel. Michael...
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