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Dec.22.2010
http://litseen.com/2010/12/22/free-university-an-experiment-in-education...
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Aug.15.2010
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/promethean-royalty-the-secret-secretaries/
Promethean Royalty: The Secret Secretaries
By Alan Kaufman.
[Images: Charles Kruger]
I guess it’s fair to ask: what qualifies you, Kaufman, to write about music? You’re a poet, novelist, memoirist, journalist, even...
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Aug.03.2010
http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/a-man-in-the-heart-of-history...
A man in the heart of history A friend and follower mourns the recent death, at age 60, of American-born Zionist activist, political journalist, editor and writer David Twersky...
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Jul.26.2010
http://www.salon.com/feature/1998/05/cov_14feature.html
I was 37 and a half years old, raised in the Bronx, penniless, prideful, a paranoid schizophrenic, overeducated transplanted New Yorker, with 22 years of severe alcoholism under my belt, newly arrived in San Francisco off a Greyhound...
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Apr.15.2010
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-corner-an-american-cultural-revolutio
The Corner: An American Cultural Revolution
by Alan Kaufman
San Francisco
Each time I go to the open air readings at the Bart train station corner of San Francisco's 16th Street and Mission, I shut and reopen my eyes like...
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Dec.25.2009
From Evergreen Review #121
HI-TECH TALIBAN by Alan Kaufman (Evergreen Review No. 121, December2009)
Hi-Tech Taliban by Alan Kaufman It's no coincidence that the...
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Dec.12.2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-kaufman/google-books-and-kindles_b_38...
Google Books And Kindles: A ConcentrationCamp Of Ideas digg Huffpost - stumble reddit...
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Oct.21.2009
http://evergreenreview.com/120/index.html
From the current issue of Evergreen Review #120
The Electronic Book Burning by Alan Kaufman...
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Feb.04.2008
Many readers who know me only as a poet and memoirist may be rather surprised to learn that my first full-length fictional effort is about Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. How, they may wonder, did I come to write about Israeli soldiers? I am a bi-national, Israeli and...
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Feb.04.2008
"God and the Devil are struggling for the soul of man," Dostoyevsky wrote, "and the battleground is the human heart." That could well summarize the oeuvre of Brooklyn-born Hubert Selby Jr., who died in 1974. His last book "Waiting Period," built on the vision revealed in "Last Exit to Brooklyn,"...
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Feb.04.2008
Irreverence, not piety, seems like the perfect sentiment to characterize the Beats. And yet, strangely enough, piety -- dictionary-defined for our purposes as awe, godliness, sanctity, holiness -- is precisely what Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the twin pillars of Beat sensibility, were most...
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Feb.03.2008
When Charles Bukowski died at 73, he left behind more than 45 volumes of poetry and prose, an oeuvre that to this day makes up the most entertaining affront ever delivered to modern letters. The books are not so much a spit in the face of literature as a beer belch.
He occupies a place among those...
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Feb.03.2008
In addition to being a professional author, I am also a professional painter. Until December of 2007, I was represented by a well-known San Francisco gallery which decided to cancel publication of a catalogue of my work due to the use of the term Zionism in the catalogue's title and by several of...
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Feb.03.2008
*Since the events recounted in this memoiristic piece, anti-Semitism has not only spread throughout Germany but has exploded globally. Thanks to Judith Tannenbaum whose posting here of the names Rodriguez and Smith--both poets were on the tour-- inspired me to blog this article. A.K...
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Jan.26.2008
Isaac Bashevis Singer considered himself a perennial outsider not only in his native Poland but also in the United States (to which he fled in the 1930s to escape Hitler's growing shadow over Europe) for the frail-looking yet indomitable Yiddish writer was, if nothing else, a consummate loner, a...
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Wonder and Awe”
—Hubert Selby Jr.
About Alan
Alan Kaufman's new memoir, Drunken Angel, will appear in the Fall of this year from Viva Editions. His novel Matches was published by Little, Brown and Company in the Fall of 2005. David Mamet has called Matches "an extraordinary war novel," and Dave Eggers...