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on First Loves and Other Adventures, essays by Grace Schulman (University of Michigan)

In From Shakespeare to Existentialism, Walter Kaufman wrote, “One learns to ask about every philosophy and every religion, and about great poets and artists, too: What is it that they praise?”

on Four New Poetry Anthologies

The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, edited and translated by Charles Simic (Graywolf)
Seriously Funny, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby (Georgia)
Poetry of the Law, edited by David Kader and Michael Stanford (Iowa)

on Nothing Happened and Then It Did, essays/stories by Jake Silverstein (Norton)

“An awful lot of fiction is immensely autobiographical, and a lot of nonfiction is highly imagined,” writes David Shields in Reality Hunger. “We dream ourselves awake every minute of the day. ‘Fiction/nonfiction’ is an utterly useless distinction.” A life is lived in secret among ruptures and congealings of comprehension.

on Dear Money, a novel by Martha McPhee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Martha McPhee’s fourth novel is narrated by India Palmer, a 38-year old Manhattan-based novelist with four critically respected mid-list books to her credit and a fifth one nearing release. Two children, a satisfying marriage to an artist, a university teaching job. But each moment points only to the need and desire for money.

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